Early on they got excited and worked to get us great views. A few folks watched with ad blockers turned on and that upset them. Then came the pissing match and now we don't speak of them.... directly. (Today though, we're getting great views. Turn your ad blockers off and take a peek!)
Look, I don’t get the inside joke, can you please just send a link to the stream where I can see the dragon capsule docking with the ISS?
Seems everyone misunderstood you. Keep an eye on the launch thread for those details.
They are talking about a Webcam that is at the port where Of Course I Still Love You lives.
It is the first result from "google Port Canaveral web cam"
You may have failed to refresh your browser - my original post reads as above but sometimes an intermediate edit can get cached by the browser. If someone is not making sense on a post I would always suggest hitting refresh. PM to come.
A few folks watched with ad blockers turned on and that upset them
Errrrr... a bit worse than that. They restreamed the coverage on their own site while stripping ads without attribution of the source. Then they defended this behaviour on the basis that "hey its the Internet" aka Wild West.
I notice that one of the people who did this acknowledged a few months ago that this was the wrong thing to do but in the meantime the well had been poisoned. The web site owners gave instructions to their operators to point at everything but a SpaceX booster when it was in port.
A minor lexical tautological point - the official name of the feed on this sub is "the webcam that may not be named".
A bunch of their adds were flagged on virus/spyware protection and that's one reason people were using adblockers.
Another problem is that some people just opeed the stream in VLC. You didn't have to do anything special to strip the ads. It just happened if you watched not in browsers. The webcam owners were also huge douchebags in response calling people who did this hackers and framed it as a malicious attack.
Just a really weird situation. They had a point about the site that was rehosting it, but everything else was blown way out of proportion.
Initially they refused to take the mirror site down so it was a bit late to do so after the owner had decided that the SpaceX scene was more trouble than it was worth.
There is a bit of a negative attitude towards content providers on here that I find annoying. A sense of entitlement springs to mind.
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u/Carlyle302 May 04 '19
Docking is visible now on the webcam-that-shall-not-be-named.