Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in months.

  Firefox with ublock origin on desktop / laptop Grayjay mobile app Smarttube on Android TV (also Flauncher customer launcher so I don’t have to see any ads on my TV home screen)

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• TJDetweiler@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I feel like there is an argument to be made about ads being put into damn near everything. They’ve become way too prominent in every aspect of daily life. There are so many things you cannot do without having an ad rammed down your throat. Youtube isn’t the best example of this, but if you start giving up things that have ads, you will eventually have nothing. The root problem is corporate greed. Line must go up at an ever increasing angle, and shareholders must make maximum profit. How do they accomplish that? Ads. Regulatory bodies must step in before everything we see in a digital spaces (and a lot of real spaces too) becomes covered in advertisements.

  Won’t be long before we go to the beach to watch the sunset, and there’s a floating billboard for mountain Dew covering it up. It’s out of control.

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  • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So again, no one is going to win this. The only recourse is to stop using YouTube.

    That’s it.

    That’s how you win. You don’t play. But constantly whining about their practices while continuing to support their platform with visits is not doing the damage you think it’s doing.

    They will always be steps ahead of you.

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    • TJDetweiler@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You didn’t really reply to my comment. You kinda just said the same thing again, but anyway.

      I guess we’ll just agree to disagree. You can use YouTube without viewing ads. There are ways around it.

      My point was, for the average consumer, there are way too many ads being put into everything, and unless you’re savvy enough to navigate around this, the only way this will change is with regulatory intervention, which can actually happen.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      to stop using youtube, to stop using your TV sized display that you have bought for a lot of money, stop using your car because it shows ads on the dashboard, public transport for the same reason, and the public roads too because every 10 meters there will be a billboard with even integrated tracking too.

      yeah, defeatism was never a solution

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      • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If you don’t like YouTube, don’t watch YouTube. Your examples are fucking ridiculous because I’m not the one crying about any of those rings.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Silliest comment of the week

  People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing.

  Go ahead and show the alternative, the alternative that has the content we need.

  Before you respond that youtube is an entertainment service, I want to remind you that it isn’t, but that it’s only a part of it. You won’t handwave it away as if we were discussing netflix being enshittified.

  News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.

  That’s objectively false. uBlock Origin devs and filterlist makers are doing a very good job.

  Don’t like it, walk away.

  That’s very similar to saying “don’t like your government? don’t like it, walk away, found your own”.
  Yeah, that’s not his it works.

  I bet you would be the first to call those who abandoned youtube as cavemen for not being able to access some video you shared

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  • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t care if there’s an alternative. You’re not obligated to watch YouTube. It’s not a job.

    You can walk away.

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    • rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Google constantly puts Youtube ads at the top of searches for information! Countless people put their information on Youtube in the form of videos! Tutorials get put on Youtube as a matter of course! There’s a trove of old media on Youtube that can’t be accessed any other way! Congratulations, you’ve won the award for the most thoughtless dismissive person on the internet today.

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      • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Be sure to keep whining about their practices while supporting them to continue with it.

        It’s funny from where I sit.

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