I’ve been watching him since I think 2020. He made some of the best tech content of YouTube and I’ve never seen another individual have more knowledge of Windows internals than him. He was accused by Youtube in the past many times for spreading viruses in the description of some of his videos.
This time it was a copyright violation of some random Japanese channel, with no relation to his channel. It is very possible this error was made by the new AI YouTube copyright detection bots.
Please help spread this. RIP Enderman 2016-2025
Looks like it’s up again. https://youtube.com/@andrewman
I would be more upset about this sort of shit happening to youtube about 10 or 15 years ago. If i need some information and theres a youtube video on it, the info is usually around 8 minutes in to a 30 minute video where they give shit loads of guff that nobody needs to know while telling you to smash that like button, hit the subscribe it really helps out the channel so if you like the content can you please subscribe dont forget to subscribe if you wanna see the channel grow then press subscribe dont miss a video by pressing subscribe I need you to subscribe here’s the information I promised but dont forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button if this helped you then leave a comment and dont forget to subscribe and like this video if you want to see more like this.
I remember when you used to be able to just enter the Wadsworth constant in the URL and it would jump you right to the good stuff
Looks like the great purge of knowledge has begun… A long, long time ago, and now we’re knee deep in it.
There is so much link rot, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the content on the internet has now vanished or become inaccessible
I have a feeling that the YouTube apocalypse will be much harder to watch (as in “more sad/unpleasant”) than the Reddit apocalypse.
Yeah. Reddit is technologically very bland. It’s “easy” to make a Reddit clone - the community is what makes it tick. But YouTube needs crazy levels of infrastructure to provide the full experience that it does. When Reddit collapses there’s places to migrate to. But if YouTube collapses it’s just a loss.
But in either case there’s massive value in the existing content that would be lost.
On the other hand, maybe it will prop up PeerTube for once…
maybe it will prop up PeerTube for once…
It won’t. Look at Mastodon vs Bluesky and Threads. Mastodon already existed, already worked well, had more features and was federated. People still chose Bluesky, which is just Twitter 2.0 owned by the same corporate douchebags.
People CRAVE the system.
Better start mirroring content now
Not to mention you can fit more Reddit on a 1TB hard drive than YouTube, which makes it much easier to exfiltrate content.
it’s funny how they also recently started to block all adblockers by not even loading videos at all just a day into US elections…
If your adblocker stops working on YT: Update your adblocker.
Yesss, uBlock 1.67 to fix this new issue
that would require me to update my browser, which I can’t without updating my OS.
Windows XP forever!
Firefox w/ uBlock Origin is still fine.
You’re right but I’m a LibreWolf guy myself. Firefox has been making too many shitty decisions (AI Integration things) for my liking.
uBlock works just fine for librewolf BTW.
Firefox lost me after they snuck ai bullshit into the browser and suddenly went from an efficient browser to dogshit tier right next to edge. If I need to about: config AND look up how to disable some garbage a dev shoehorned in… I’ll spend that time downloading a browser that doesnt forget its only job is to render the thing I clicked on as quickly and efficiently as possible. If I want something more I’ll use an add-on.
It suure does work a charm.
Firefox lost me after they snuck ai bullshit into the browser
I hate AI and refuse to interact with it. Your statement is false. They didn’t sneak anything in - they openly added a feature that lets you connect an AI assistant of choice, or with a single click, disable it entirely.
I would argue that they did in fact “sneak” Perplexity address bar search into the brower just weeks ago.
You know- you do you, yadda yadda
Just had this problem today. Disabling the Ad Nauseam extension allowed videos to actually load, although now they all stop at the one minute mark. I can work around it, but I’ll check to see if another extension is causing it when I have a chance.
Unless they start embedding the ads directly into the video stream, they’ll never be able to block adblocks - updating your extensions will work.
I think I did, but I’ll check again.
Revanced and smart tube next
I will fight to my dieing breathe to help people deny alphabet any penny of ad revenue.
Is YouTube trying to hide behind AI? Like removing videos and channels, throwing it to AI.
Google like many companies are looking at AI like the next slave trade. Free labor that doesn’t need sleep, ask for wage increases, or have rights. There’s a reason so many companies are trying to brute force AI right now. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out why humanoid robots are being developed.
By the way, there was a video by Enderman (or FlyTech, or similar) showing a Windows locale that looked ﻉกƚٱɼєℓץ ʟ𝔦к𝚎 Շዘﾉร, intended for English-speaking devs to test support for Unicode and unusually short/long strings in the UI. I haven’t been able to find it for years (the title, which was along the lines of “The Strangest Windows 8 Build” didn’t help). Has anyone seen it recently?
Sounds like something FlyTech would show.
But I don’t remember that happening.
The ”C” in “AI” stands for “competence”.
The ‘A’ stands for Ain’t
AI = Ain’t Intelligent
Ain’telligent
Their joke but worse
That’s the joke…
WHAAAAT? NO WAY!
Are you trying to become Captain Obvious? Because that’s MY JOB!
ai has lots of problems, but lack of accountability is one of the big ones
“Therefore a computer is ideally suited to making management decisions”
More like…AI’s primary purpose is to provide an unaccountable excuse to fire people and keep wages down.
i doubt anyone would be held accountable at youtube/ youtube itself really even if it were not AI…
I don’t know if that is a problem. If a human does dumb things he will be fired. If a computer/algorithm /Ai does it, it will be removed.
I think it has more to do with human costs (salary) vs the cost of brand damage (youtube).
They spent billions of dollars to develop and train the AIs that they use. They’re not going to remove it for fucking up someone’s YouTube channel.
They wouldn’t remove it even if it caused someone’s death (which it probably has considering that they have been shown to be very bad at therapy and that people go to them for therapy).
UPDATE: Channel “4096” (about 10 million subs i think, it had that legendary 30 million view video with the windows 7 windows dancing) has also been deleted:
Sounds like it’s a site wide push about Microsoft products:
YouTube’s AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos • https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/ai_moderation_youtube_windows11_workaround/
Imagine if that accidentally started banning all things Microsoft related due to some misalignment
While I do not wish for it to happen due to many real people possibly losing their real source of income, it would be quite fun hell to observe
i kinda get them pulling that, but it’s still shitty none the less.
You get what?
pulling bypass videos if microsoft asked them too. if we still had keygens, you think microsoft would be ok with keygen guides on youtube? press x to doubt.
Most “bypasses” are using admin tools and commands to keep accounts in company or local for enterprises. Its hardly hacking. Microsoft just wants to forcibly inflate their registration numbers. Same thing with one drive, the start menu pulling bing content… Etc.
Its gonna get worse faster as people bail on the eroding enshitified os… Making them try to forcibly lock in other people on the platform harder.
Related: DRM and piracy. The more invasive it got - the worse it was for paying customers… While the DRM would be stripped out by the pirates. You’d think they’d know better.
i think the real answer is just to not install windows 11 and install linux instead.
You are out of your god damned mind to be logically equating modifying your OS with piracy.
i didn’t say it was piracy, i said it was against EULA.
You literally didn’t tho
Except this isn’t stealing windows. It’s installing it on unsupported hardware and/or without needing user accounts to be tied to microsoft accounts. It has nothing to do with bypassing windows activation systems.
your bypassing hardware requirements, that could be against the EULA, and it actually is if you read it. they dont want people sharing videos violating their EULA
but your…bypassing their software requirements…without their permission…thus breaking the license agreement you agree to installing windows. Listen dude i get it, its fucking stupid, but at the same time, i don’t see what microsoft is doing is wrong (in regards to pulling bypass videos, not this guys account)
Are you real? Like this reeks of Subway from Community.
What grounds do they have to pull those videos?
You are aware there is no law called “If you show someone how to modify the product I sold to them (licensed to them too, as that makes no difference) I get to pull down their content” right?
Love that channel :(
That’s so disappointing! One of my favorite channels!
maybe we’ll get lucky and YouTube’s shitty moderation AI will delete the entire website
Loses*
Its amazing how much of a problem lose vs loose has become lately. But yes, OP should change it to “loses.”
For all intensive purposes, we have become too lose with txt quality, and it effects my mental health.
The thing I don’t get is how often are people using “looses” that it becomes possible to mix it up? I don’t think I have ever used that word in 40 years.
peertube
Nebula is cool because every creator on the platform becomes part owner, so it really gives creators on the platform good control of their content. I just wish that there was a way to federate video content between paid platforms so you can have one pane of glass to view stuff scattered across the web
one pane of glass
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does your day job involve working with a bunch of “microservices”?
Isn’t that just Grayjay?
You can access your nebula content on GrayJay. But GrayJay isn’t a platform you upload anything to, it’s just a way to watch content on many different platforms.
I wonder if it’s worth putting a request for the team to have that feature, although I’m guessing that would require API access that they can’t touch for legal reasons.
I also have 3 guest passes. Any time I find a video on YT that mentions Nebula I just go watch there instead.
Same here on both counts.
First 3 replies to this post asking for a guest pass will get one from me. It’s a free month of viewing anything through Nebula. (I recommend “The Prince” and “Lynchpins”.)
Can i get a guest pass? Pretty please?
I would like a guest pass. I have wanted to try it out for a while now.
Sorry, you got “sniped”; I’ve already given away my 3, and I won’t get more until the new year.
Maybe you can score one from someone else?
I would like a guest pass too!
I would like a guest pass. I frequently watch Practical Engineering on YT and Brady mentions Nebula a lot. I intended to check it out, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
ive started to sub to creators paterons instead. ad-free and they get more money than youtube.
I have three guest passes I could send out if anyone would like to try out Nebula for a week. I’ll send you the redemption code via private message. Just reply to this thread or send me a message on Lemmy!
i would like to try if you still have a slot. tysm
Fresh out friend, but the week trial is new so anyone with Nebula should have codes if they haven’t already given them out, themselves!
I’ll take one, if you don’t mind, I’ve heard everyone talk about it but never tried it
Sent! Please let me know if you ran into any snags with the redemption process!
You got a code URL coming when I return from my lunch!
Thank you!
I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to send a DM using the Thunder client on my phone. Is your offer for the guest pass still available??
I sent the message with the link to redeem. Let me know if you ran into any snags with the redemption process!
When I get back from lunch I’ll send the code URL.
i’d like one
I sent the message with the link to redeem. Let me know if you ran into any snags with the redemption process!
You got the last of the three once I’m back from lunch.
yeah, anyway the monetizing is through sponsorship no? Like they sell something mid video, so I’m not sure how the platform is important here, apart from exposure
Advertising to the 12 people on peertube isnt the same as the millions on youtube.
But if you go you can make it 13.
A drop in the ocean raises the sea.
Rising tide raises all ships!
Maybe this will be his next move, if he doesn’t want that to happen anymore.
human errors, automated errors, ai errors, yt going for all achievements speed run
Just deleting useful information.
