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Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

I understand that hosting video and streaming it is an expensive business that has to be paid, even if we ignore all the income Google has racked up by profiling people and (ab)using that to show ads. That said, I wouldn’t mind if they had more taste which ads play, in what number and fucking when. Most annoying thing is when the play 3 minute ads on 6 minute video. Not even shittiest TV network does that. And also unskipable ads. These days I skip all, self-promotion and in-video sponsors included.

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Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, my experience with youtube ads

Buy a Chromebook PragerU Right wing Youtubers Don’t vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constituition By a ford Here’s a pornographice/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you BUY A CHROME BOOK! Hey, check out this person’s scam! They paid us to force this scam on you! Look at these cable news channels’ youtube channels Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children BUY A CHROMEBOOK! buy a jeep Listen to this prepper try to hock you “survival” gear and shelf stable food Don’t you remember when families did things? wasn’t that fun? Families, doing things?

Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!

I am interested in none of these things

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- TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean, I just get ads for drain cleaner, dog dewormer and metamucil.
  
  I must be boring.
  
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  - inverimus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My 6yo gets a ton of ads for insurance, about the same amount as for toys. It’s weird.
    
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    Juvyn00b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Liberty Liberty liiiberty…liiiberteeeee.
    
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    Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I used to get these all the time. Haven’t seen one in almost a year now. I wonder what happened for them to so strongly disassociate something with me? I wish I knew so that I could weaponize it.
    
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  - FraidyBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You could always spice it up and see what you get.
    
    I use VPNs and ad blockers where I can / when they work. I also have an extension that makes my Internet traffic useless by sending random data. When I need to go to the official YouTube app and get ads I get a smorgasbord. Right now they seem to think I’m either a recently divorced middle aged man with ED who just discovered they are actually a balding gay man or a teenaged girl with period problems and a desperate need for a social media following. Neither of these even come close but it’s always entertaining to see what I get.
    
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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This exactly!
  
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canthidium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

These days I skip all, self-promotion and in-video sponsors included.

Sounds like you probably use it but if not, get the SponsorBlock extension to do exactly this.

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I am. Thanks for linking to it.
  
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inverimus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They show those 3 minute ads because they get paid a lot for them. My favorite are the 30 minute documentary ads.

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