Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites

mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• WeeSheep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are in the videos as sponsors for a lot of channels

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Especially when creators find interesting ways to work them in, which is pretty often, in my experience. They’re the one type of ad that doesn’t annoy me.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse.

        I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

        It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of sponsored results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

        It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.

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  • lukstru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tbh I don’t care about the sponsor segments in videos. It’s actually my favorite way of advertising, as I can skip it or watch the funny ones (tomska does really funny - although slightly incorrect - segments).

    But boy do I hate sponsored results on Amazon or similar platforms. I feel like I have to search through them to get to the actual products, and then I can’t trust the reviews

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    SponsorBlock takes care of the sponsored segments in youtube videos. There are addons for blocking sponsored search results on amazon too.

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