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

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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