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>> one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok.

I run into this daily. I'm in the military and so my internet connection at work is mingled with a thousand other military people. Ok, it is accurate to say we are predominantly male and younger, but every time I see an ad does it have to an an anime character? Some of us recently gathered to watch the DC riot footage on youtube. The footage started with a non-skippable ad for some pervy anime game. Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen.




I don't know, there's something reaaaaally dystopian and weird and fun but concerning about the chain of events that led to that situation.

I personally use ublock to correct in real time my world lenses.


Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen.

Classic! I love real world tidbits like this. I would suggest in the future use youtube-dl https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html to download the video to your machine to avoid situations like this.


There are all sort of ways to do this, but they are difficult in the military context. We gathered in one room because youtube/facebook is blocked on our normal office machines. This was an unrestricted podium computer used for totally unclassified stuff like streaming live news feeds. Like most corporate networks, we aren't allowed to just install software, even simple browser extensions have to go through an approval process.


Can you talk a bit about the ambiance and the reactions in the room as the events unfolded ? If you can, that is.


There was no reaction. This is normal. The unfiltered internet is full of inappropriately sexual ads.


I mean.. reactions to the events that took place at the Capitol.


I love how even the DoD won't pay for YouTube Premium.




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