Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are

hunter2@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some of those that work ad tech are the same that write filters.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. My day job is providing tools to the marketing team and improving lead gen. It pays me well.

    But I also contribute to open source projects to unfuck the internet. I know the tricks people like me use.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Real heroes have shitty day jobs. Checks out.

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      • LukeMedia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I want all of that fun stuff, not a boring day job

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  • dmonzel@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oooooooo, is this the start of a RATM parody?

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  • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Should be good to bad, not bad to good

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was October Spooky when Microsoft dropped the GetWinX.exe icon on everyone’s Win7 and Win8 taskbars. The first time, we all followed the directions and dove into the registry to remove it, because it wasn’t enough to just delete it. The icon would self restore.

  Then Microsoft reinstalled their adware in a critical security update Big Mic also started using dark patterns making upgrading opt-out, and hiding the onay toggle.

  Thats when an engineer, UltimateOutsider, I think, created the GetWinX Control Panel which not only did the full remove in a wizard but also monitored on boot to see if it came back.

  It was a reassuring day. I think no matter how much the companies enshittify, it will only drive pissed off engineers to write hard bypasses. It’s how we got the GCP. It’s how we got Windows Loader for every release since XP’s activation process.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That kind of shit is why I run GNU, and so should everybody else.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t run gnu; you probably run Linux. In the same sense, you don’t mention how you ride the tires to work but you probably mention riding a bicycle, bus or car. You go to see art, not the tools used to create it, and this is why van gogh’s art is on display and not the brushes he used to such great effect.

      Keep it in perspective no matter how hard the feet-picker wants to distract you.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I run GNU. IDGAF whether the kernel is Linux or HURD, but I do care that as much of the system as possible is copyleft instead of merely permissive.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When youtube started, the ads would load perfectly every single time and the video was a tiresome afterthought that would load in fits and starts if it loaded at all.

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds like every streaming service

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• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use an ad blocker but I cringe when I see my wife viewing a short recipe online, on a page with 10+ ads.

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why don't you help her? Do you not like her??

    She's drowning and you're just standing there watching :( :(

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    • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re assuming I haven’t tried?

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah. Ginger spouses, am I right?

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve offered. It doesn’t bother my partner.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not OP but I run a Pi Hole for the home network, but don’t intrude to install software on her laptop.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t intrude but I’d at least offer.

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      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get to choose what software my wives PC runs and how, and she gets to not worry about problems on it.

        We’ll, for the most part. She insists on Windows and I insist that every time something is wrong it’s Windows fault.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hook your wife up

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  • JewGoblin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m totally shocked when I see people using browsers without an ad blocker, mind blowing

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now on mobile they even open up the sidebar where the playlist normally is and puts an extra ad there too. Then it breaks your fullscreen and youre left with the comments open and a banner ad. So dumb.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This. Ads can be somewhat okay as long as they don’t interrupt or otherwise hinder the functionality of the website or application I’m using.

  YouTube’s video ads interrupt the main functionality of the website for the full duration of the ads (some are skippable after 5s).

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the early days of the Internet, ads were ok.

    Then the popups came.

    Then came the popup blockers.

    It's been an arms race since the beginning. The ad-throwers get greedy, not knowing when to stop pushing. That's how things escalate.

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The pop-up divs annoy the fuck out of me. And most websites have gotten smart about them by creating the div ids on the fly so ublock can take them on.

      I’m getting close to completely disabling JavaScript at this rate.

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      • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I started using noscript on my phone despite how annoying it is to use day to day. Desktop have more tools to manage pop ups better, but on mobile the only reliable way I’ve found is to nuke everything and just re enable what you need.

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  • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a matter of principle I will doff my headphones and look away or hyperfocus on the specific area to skip the ad waiting for it to become available.

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• JewGoblin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Greed

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  • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I think this may play a part, YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now. It’s not greedy to want to pay server costs

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    • JamesFire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now

      Directly unprofitable. They don’t make money off the service directly, but the massive amount of data harvesting they do feeds their ad algorithms elsewhere.

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• weedazz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about you just pay for services then?

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We do, look at all this data we let them harvest

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not the most appealing option, but it might just work as long as the service is good.

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