yeah it kinda makes me happy when the ads are wrong and I sure don’t want to correct my profile.
Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.
EaterOfLentils@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
YouTube keeps showing me ads for surrogacy (as in, being a surrogate), which could not be more the opposite of what I want to do in life. Obviously they know I am a woman of childbearing age, but somewhere the algorithm got me very wrong. I just let the ads play though, to let them think the idea doesn’t repulse me beyond anything I can imagine.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
fishy@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Lol the algorithms are lost on me. I don’t even do much to avoid it, I’m just weird as fuck!
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You guys are watching ads? Image
EaterOfLentils@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I watch a lot of YouTube and I haven’t gotten around to figuring out the ad blocker situation on my phone.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The easiest solution IMO is to download Firefox for your phone and use that instead of the YouTube app. I don’t watch a lot on my phone, but that’s what I did. Just install the Ublock extension like you would on a desktop and you’re all set. Then you can also use that instead of Chrome and free of ads on the web at large as well.
The one unfortunate thing is that you can’t uninstall the YouTube app, only disable it, and every time you go to the site it will ask you if you want to open the app instead.