Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 10 months agoIt’s funny too because ads literally are a 5 second delay (at least) that you get when you dont use an adblocker!
Bonehead@kbin.social 10 months ago
I honestly think I prefer the delay over the ad.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 10 months ago
Same. Give me the delay. At least I know that’s only five seconds, as opposed to a ten-second unskippable ad followed by another ad that I can skip after five seconds.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 10 months ago
You’re absolutely right, but we haven’t even touched on the worst part of ads, which is how they utterly poison your brain with annoying jingles, annoying colors, and stupid catch-phrases, all psychologically engineered to get stuck in your head.
And let’s not even go into how they prey on your fears and insecurities, or deceive you into thinking you need things that you actually don’t. How they prey on vulnerable children, or the elderly, or brainwash small children into manipulating their parents against their best interests. Or how privacy has been shredded since the advent of behavioral tracking.
I’m not exaggerating at all when I say that advertising is one of the world’s biggest psychological hazards. I would rather sit in an empty room with no stimulation whatsoever than let that poison into my brain.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
If I see an ad, I like to play the game “Roll the dice until Youtube gives up”. Hit the refresh key until it gives me the correct video length. Devalues Youtube’s ad product and costs YouTube more.
sour@kbin.social 10 months ago
i close the video on mobile
Sidhean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re still letting you skip ads??
DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 10 months ago
At some point Hulu did that - just like three, thirty-second blocks of silent 'shame on you for ad blocking!' I totally preferred that to ads...
Now I just don't use Hulu?