The Bank Login Scam – Part 3 – Identifying The Scammers
Here we have the finale of Jim Browning’s “Bank Login Scam” video series. In part one he showed from his end one of these scams in action and was successfully able to bait the scammer into installing a...
View ArticleWithout Context: The Computer Man
Well, at least they tried… No, I don’t know offhand what this is about – it looks to be someone promoting Macintosh systems (against Windows 95 based PC’s) but beyond that, I don’t have a clue right...
View ArticleAbout That Terrible Computer Build Video By “The Verge”
I know I’m well over a week late for this one, but this is one of those things that was just too hilarious to pass up – the single worst custom computer build video that I think most people have ever...
View ArticleThe Google Plus Data Leak – An Incredible Failure
Yesterday news broke of a flaw in the Google Plus API which from 2015 till recently in 2018 had the potential to expose otherwise private user data, something which would be bad enough on its own if it...
View ArticleHey Google, Ya Mind Not Letting YouTube Go Down For Damn Near Everyone?
It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the...
View ArticleYouTube Is Back Up. That Only Took A Solid Hour And In That Time The Internet...
After well over an hour of being down effectively globally, YouTube is back up and running as… er, well… as ever. While I’ve not yet seen any info on what the cause of the issue was, it does look like...
View ArticleAbout YouTube Killing Off Annotations…
Back on January 15th YouTube finally killed off the annotations feature completely on all videos. This came about a year and a half after YouTube ended the ability to create and edit annotations in any...
View ArticleAbout YouTube Removing Automatic Post Sharing…
Another thing of note in YouTube’s never ending “let’s try things, then change those things, then remove those things a few years later” pattern over the past decade is the removal of automatic post...
View ArticleAn Update On The GameAnyone Situation
A few days ago I shared the strange discovery my friend Prince Watercress made in that a game walkthrough / let’s play sharing site known as “GameAnyone” apparently has a tactic of making “fake”...
View ArticleYouTube Is Still Showing Me Channels I’ve Unsubscribed From In My Feed – A...
Back in July of 2018 I wrote an article (YouTube Is *Still* Showing Me Channels I’ve Unsubscribed From In My Subscription Feed) discussing YouTube showing channels I’ve unsubscribed to in my...
View ArticleAnother Adpocalypse? Cry Me A River.
Apparently, in the YouTube scene, we’re going through another “Adpocalypse” — a situation on YouTube where advertising revenue takes a dive because advertisers got pissed about something some big...
View ArticleGoodbye YouTube
Yes, I know it’s quite the dramatic title. Figured I’d use tactics that were common on YouTube to get some extra attention to this article — more than it already would get naturally. “Play their game”...
View ArticleUpdating AVGN Episode Reviews, And More – An Update
You know, I never expected the Angry Video Game Nerd episode reviews to get as far as they did — I’m in Season 4 and am incredibly optimistic on where this is going, as it’s gone from being just a fun...
View ArticleMaking Time For Myself For Once | Escaping Social Media
So, there’s been another gap in me writing here and as usual I’d like to write about it, for what use it is to others who may read this. As usual, it’s had to do partially with me being tied up with...
View ArticleYouTube Changed Their API. Again. This Broke Video Downloads. Again.
I really don’t much like YouTube anymore. I haven’t for years now, but it, like Google, is one of those necessary evils in the digital life of most everyone. I’ll fully admit it’s where a majority of...
View ArticleI Think I Misjudged The YouTube / COPPA Situation
On Friday of last week I wrote an article about the YouTube / COPPA situation and how I felt like people may have been making a bigger deal out of it than they should. As it turns out, this is a case...
View ArticleBlocked For A Reason – 2020 Edition
Back in early 2016 I wrote an article titled “Blocked for a Reason.” The article covered the subject of blocking people on social media – in simple form, the reason behind such (at least for me) and...
View ArticleYouTube, Microsoft, And Sony Are Limiting Connection Speeds To Help Conserve...
With many people being forced to stay home during this pandemic the overall infrastructure of the internet is being somewhat taxed by far more people than normal using it for video watching, gaming,...
View ArticleXadaraCast Episode 1 – We’re Back! Walmart Horror Stories, The Mess That Is...
It’s time for the return of XadaraCast! That’s right, after a few years away it’s returned and, dare I say, is better than ever. In this first episode, Prince Watercress and I discuss a few subjects,...
View ArticleXadaraCast Episode 2: The Sad Story Of Classic Game Room, A New Sega Console,...
This is XadaraCast Episode 2, recorded on June 2nd, 2020! In this episode Prince Watercress and Chris discuss the once great YouTube gaming series Classic Game Room, a somewhat overly dramatic YouTube...
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