The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery

Google refuses to play embedded YouTube videos because I didn’t consent to targeted advertisement cookies. Fine. But give me a link to the video, then, you fucking ghouls. This is such an obvious dark pattern it’s quite pathetic.

Playing YouTube videos requires the use of cookies in order to offer you targeted advertising based on your browsing activity. For more information, please visit YouTube's « cookie » policy.. You have rejected Youtube's cookies and therefore you cannot view the video. You can change your choices by clicking on « update my choices » and accept Youtube's cookies to enable the video. You can change this setting and withdraw your consent at any time. (There is a "handy button" for "Updating my choices" but no link to the video)

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