It’s so weird hearing about YouTube ads. I can’t recall ever seeing one. I know one day they’re going to finally ruin it and I won’t be able to consume it any more, an event I try to prepare for, but I haven’t really done anything special to avoid ads except all the stuff you have to do just to be secure on the web in the first place. Like just using librewolf out of the box works fine?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
The day smart tube next stops working is the day i stop using youtube. I will NEVER watch a shitty youtube ad and I’m sure as shit not paying google any money whatsoever.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Rooty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m gonna start listening to podcasts, they’re more informative and less bandwidth heavy anyway.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
What I don’t understand. Like, they know people hate shitty ads.
If they had like, literally any level of vetting on the ads, people might actually watch them. But its all fucking scams or podcasts of lies pretending to be ads etc.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
They have a bank of companies that are paying to have their ads shown.
The companies dictate who they want to market to.
Google originally pitched scanning your things for relvant ads and delivered on it, but that’s not where the money is at.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah, and we have led to a race to the bottom.in a war against ads that everyone hates.
Short term bull shit for long term death.