New Year reading list!

My 2020 reading list / поизучать в 2020 году:

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Walking Moscow's Arbats on December 2019

Here is a photo walk on the two Arbat streets in Moscow, starting at about 15:00 and ending at 21:00.

Arbatskaya Metro station.

Old Arbat.

"We wish you a Merry Christmas".

Capt. Jack Sparrow.

On to Novy (New) Arbat.

2020.

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Google Search Doesn't Want You to Find Anything, It Wants You to Keep Google-Search Forever

Google Search is so inefficient it defeats its own stated purpose.

Or maybe it's not inefficient at all, I am now positive its real purpose is not to let you find something on the Internet but rather to keep you looking as long as possible, preferably for ever.

For example, I was looking for men's black leather blazers specifically (as in suit jacket but NOT other types of jackets) but it keeps turning up anything but what I am looking for -- all sorts of jackets but very few blazers or costume looking jackets.

When I specify "leather BLAZER", the dumb thing still returns results mainly for "leather jackets".

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English book on farting

Агентство переводов

Еще одно агентство переводов.

Google AdSense Sucks and Doesn't Work, and You Get No Help

Google (boogle) must be employing the lowest-IQ individuals anywhere in the world like their two benighted founders were. 

Google and her various services create lots of problems whenever anyone tries to use them but provide no help to, like, 99% of all users.

AdSense doesn't work on my blog and the dumb google or adsense or whoever does nothing about it.

Don't get involved with Google AdSense - the whole thing is a giant heap of manure at best, you'll get nothing from it but grief and certainly next to nothing in the way of earnings.

The thing has more bugs and than a hobo's bed.

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Feedjit is no more!

I knew something was wrong as the Feedjit gadget had become no show months (if not years ago) on my blog, but here is a confirmation - it WAS shut down.

So, won't be back.

Bye-bye, Feedjit.





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Has YouTube Been Going in the Wrong Direction?

Has YouTube Been Going in the Wrong Direction?

Has YouTube outlived its usefulness to small YouTube creators who are an overwhelming majority on the platform?

Over the past year +, something very wrong has been ongoing at YouTube.

YouTube under CEO Wojcicki has been engaged in deceptive practices and even what amounts to fraud in its dealings with small YouTube Creator channels.

YouTube's MO now seems to be to get as many people as possible to upload videos while denying channel monetization to the overwhelming majority of uploaders who happen to be small creators.

As far as YouTube is concerned, it works very well as they still can and do make money on unmonetized videos by making them available to paying viewing public subscribing to YouTube Premium.

But they still like to dangle the carrot of channel monetization in front of people with small channels so people keep uploading and watching videos on the platform and, to this end, greedily lie that new YouTubers can have their channels monetized once they get 4,000 hours of views and over 1,000 subscribers.

But the reality is that they are lying and most channels reaching 4,000 view hours per year and 1,000 subscribers will never be approved for monetization -- ostensibly for the reason of failing YouTube's review of compliance with their policies, for example, because "re-used" content will be found on such channels (without specifying what that content is and in which videos it can allegedly be found), and you can count on the fact that Re-Used content will be found; if not, they will come up with some other reason not to approve monetization or will just suspend the decision for ever.

Also, YouTube's so called policies, against which new channels are supposedly reviewed, are changing every month in line with the dictates of YouTube bosses' all-consuming greed and with a view to getting more content for less and less in outlay and expenditure.

It is important to remember that in 2018 YouTube already demonetized tens if not hundreds of millions of small creator channels that had been fully in compliance with YouTube's so-called policies in effect at the time. Their only fault was YouTube's unwillingness to pay those channels for content anymore, however little that pay was per individual channel (still amounting to hundreds of millions over all such channels).

Also, over the same period, YouTube deprecated many extremely useful features, claiming they didn't see much use - but they were lying here again because the principal motive force in these deprecations was again greed pure and simple - the desire on the part of YouTube bosses to reduce expenditure and to make YouTube smaller and cheaper to run with less features.

It is therefore hard to avoid reaching the conclusion that YouTube is now greedy, rotten to the core, stinks and is nothing but a criminal gang of greedy thieving capitalists, appropriating people's videos for own commercial use (over YouTube Premium if nothing else) and as ever operating outside the spirit and even the letter of applicable laws in most countries while faking concern over topical issues and using them as a pretext to squeeze YouTube uploaders even more.

So, in light of the above, my suggestion is not to upload videos on YouTube anymore and even not to watch YouTube at all but if you still do, don't ever pay them for anything, especially for YouTube Premium, make them work for free, and use a good ad blocker too.

So, has YouTube been going in the wrong direction starting in 2018 or maybe even earlier? Discuss in the comments.