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

• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I distrust all YouTube ads content creators slide into their videos, because the products are either useless to me, disappointing in real life like the “taste smells” water bottle or sketchy with some fear mongering like the VPNs.

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m not gonna be paying for NordVPN. They’ve got this much money for ads and when buying 2 years at a time they’re cheaper than, say, Mullvad? Suspicious.

    I do like some of the channels’ sponsor segments though. Internet Historian is great, OverSimplified can do pretty good ones. The Map Men are pure gold though.

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• 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I dunno, I don’t just ignore ads, I find them repulsive, like my scam-alarms go off even when I know that it’s probably a legit product. Seriously unless I get a recommendation from an actual person, the brand I’ve never heard of feels safer to me then the brand I saw a cheap ad for on some janky website. Maybe it’s because so much of the stuff I had growing up was knockoff/store brand, so I’ve hardly ever actually experienced anything that I saw an ad for.

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