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Despite the title being about YouTube, this is fundamentally about Safari's declarative Content Blocker API being totally inadequate in the face of modern ad delivery technologies.…

Ray Tomlinson's design for email came in the 70s. RFC 788 (SMTP) was published in 1981. Email predates the Web, and, imo, has been made much worse by all the Web-adjacent features …

Nice strawman. Did I claim at any point that g+ is "absolutely not [useful]"? No need to start white-knighting for Google.

Not sure if "better commenting", or just another attempt to integrate G+ into every Google-owned property. The part about floating "engaged discussions" to the top is interesting. …

Is there any sort of proof of this "optimization" actually contributing to performance? The state of compiler optimization being what it is, I find it hard to imagine flag tweaking…

Something like this is long overdue, I think. Great work. Open academic publication models have had a difficult time for a number of reasons, but systems like this are very helpful…