On this day in 1959, Congolese residents of Stanleyville rebelled against Belgian colonizers, demanding independence after a speech by Patrice Lumumba. Police suppressed the riot, killing ~70, imposing martial law, and arresting Lumumba.
The day prior, Lumumba called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in a speech to the MNC congress, also ordering Congolese people to not collaborate with the Belgian colonial government and announcing that the party would not take part in the upcoming December elections.
The rebellion began on October 30th when the police arrived at the suburb of Mangoba to arrest Lumumba. The uprising was suppressed with military force, including two companies of infantry.
In total, approximately 70 people were killed in the fighting, and up to 200 were wounded. Lumumba himself was arrested by police as the government imposed martial law and banned gatherings of more than five people.
Congo would achieve independence from Belgium on June 30th, 1960, with Lumumba serving as its first Prime Minister. He was assassinated by Belgian forces and their collaborators on January 17th, 1961.
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Umm, it looks like the youtube ad blocker is getting more aggressive and is now embedded in the video itself rather than a pop up.
Is anyone able to still block ads normally? If so what are you using?
I just watch youtube in an incognito window and it doesn't give me the warning anymore
Thanks, were you also logged in or did you stay logged out?
I just stay logged out. Usually what I do is I open a normal window, check my subscriptions, click on something they've posted, they copy paste the URL into a incognito one.
Freetube: https://freetubeapp.io/
I haven't seen an ad yet, but I have had it mysteriously freeze the video until I click a few seconds ahead on the timeline a few times
I've replaced direct access to youtube with freetube on the desktop, newpipe on my phone, and yewtu.be for embedded (with the Privacy Redirect plugin for chrome derivatives)
so far so good
I just keep following these instructions for uBlock Origin (which if you're not using as your ad blocker you def should be)
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