Anyone else find it impossible to watch videos on Giant Bomb that are hosted on YouTube? Trying to watch them here, the audio starts playing even before clicking to start the video. After clicking play on the video, there's double audio. It's impossible to stop the initial audio from playing. I always have to give up and go watch the video on YouTube.
Using Firefox on Win10.
I get this too (also FF on Win10). But only the first time I go to a video, if I hit reload after it seems to work ok.
Great episode! I have to point out though that @jeremyhammond got the quote wrong. Penn Jillette did not actually call him a poser. The quote is pretty positive really:
"I'm tempted to call him a computer 'poser' but that's not the point. [...] He's not a poser. He's a fan of computers, and he doesn't claim to be more. [...] He's not a fan of computers because he can write code, he's a fan because he knows that whatever is really happening nowadays is happening around computers."
Fantastic episode. From my point of view, the biggest problem with this network (and others like it) is that they're spending time and effort creating worthless garbage, and it's its just filling up the algorithm slots that could have actual cool content in it. That's the real reason these 'content' farms are cancer, they use up the attention "oxygen" that actual cool stuff needs.
I also would have like to hear more about what the 'end game' is. Like how does 1 billion views convert to dollars. Is it just ad share revenue like youtube?
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