Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites
mrfriki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And yet I see 0 ads in either of those sites.
Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites
mrfriki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And yet I see 0 ads in either of those sites.
WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are in the videos as sponsors for a lot of channels
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months 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.
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
lukstru@lemmy.world 4 months 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
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
SponsorBlock takes care of the sponsored segments in youtube videos. There are addons for blocking sponsored search results on amazon too.