Google To Allow Double Serving Ads.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Watched something on YouTube on my TV for the first time last week. Never again. 12 minute video had like 6 or 8 ads, 2-3 were 30 seconds. Fuck. That.

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  • Dempf@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SmartTube

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    • RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love SmartTube. Every time someone comes over and they want to play something via YouTube, they’re like: “holy fuck, no ads? skipping straight to music part? this is divine technology”

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SmartTube is the best. There was a small period of time recently where it stopped working and it was so bad going back to regular YT that I just stopped watching entirely.

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    • rice@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      plug in $20 laptop from craigslist and disable internet on your tvs

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    • Bristingr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just checked, sounds like that program isn’t working anymore.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be designed to work without an account.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t find it on my Roku or AppleTV or TIZEN or WebOS.

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  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.

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    • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit this is the first I’ve heard of Playlet. Giving it a go now and it’s already impressive.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, after you’ve waded through the swamp of Roku ads, you could get an adfree youtube experience with that

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Roku is terrible too though. Their data collection is bad and they’ve started tightening their grip on some things.

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  • rice@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    plug in $20 laptop from craigslist and disable internet on your tvs

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    • Sprinks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When we replaced our computers years ago we used the old parts to build a low-spec, but functional, computer to hook up to the TV. Paired with a wireless mouse/keyboard we dont really notice a difference in ease of use compared to a streaming device.

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or some cheap Raspberry Pi box or those sail the high seas streaming sticks or a Nvidia shield, so many better options than giving the Spyware and adware filled TV OS from getting access to your internet

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s not worth it. Maybe sometime I’ll get something like pihole set up so YouTube is usable on my TV, but for now, I just plug in a laptop w/ proper ad block.

    I’d totally pay for YT if it was reasonable for my usage. But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn’t worth it for me.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d totally pay for YT…But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn’t worth it for me.

      If pay for it if their first-party experience wasn’t so horrific and gave me any control over my feed.

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• sittinonatoilet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Adtech is a scam

  Recent report showed all these verification companies missed obvious bot traffic and weren’t doing anything prebid even though they were charging for it lol

  adexchanger.com/…/adalytics-the-ad-industrys-bot-…

  Multiple sources said that, based on the report, verification platforms appear to be blocking domains based on historical, post-bid assessments of the site’s bot traffic, rather than doing real-time, pre-bid bot blocking on an impression-by-impression basis.

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No advertising platform has any incentive to prevent bot traffic; they actively profit from ‘failing’ to prevent it.

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    • sittinonatoilet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not true

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• doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …because if I’m not interested in something, I might change my mind after I see it a bunch more times on the same fucking page - what a brilliant idea! Hell, put the ad in 50 different spots and make me click no less than 7 times to close each one - who knows, maybe that will encourage me to buy whatever shit you’re peddling!

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  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    frequency does help a lot with a customer actually going through with a purchase, but really this is just another way for advertisers to spend more on the same ad spot, because now your competitors can screw you out of multiple opportunities instead of just one

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  • tonywu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thing is, even after buying whatever it is you still continue to see the same ADs…

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• seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their ‘experimentations’. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they from would honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.

    We have

    • a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
    • ruining our planet’s climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
    • ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
    • destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
    • keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
    • destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…

    Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…
      

      In my city there is a public vote planned for an ad free cityscape and all of a sudden i see adverts claiming that only adverts keep stuff like Soup kitchens or other charities in the publics focus and how good ads are in public space. It’s a goddamn disease

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    • Zirconium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been contemplating the effects of a constitutional amendment to ban all forms of paid advertisements for physical and digital and Im only able to think of YouTube being shut down but that’s alright by me

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The number goes up if you know what I mean.

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yay, now the world’s worst profiling service can show the same completely irrelevant add twice!

  If you’re a business and using Google to serve targeted ads, think twice. Their targeting is absolutely horse-shit mumbojumbo. They’re wasting your money, their money, and my time by consistently serving the least-relevant, no-fucking-chance-I’d-click-on-that ads.

  You’d be better off paying local pigeons for investing advice.

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• oakey66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Enshittification continues.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a naturally emergent property of capitalism.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Books don’t have ads.

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  • tmcgh@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every 100th page, there will be a small, “unobtrusive” ad near the bottom of the page. Just to cover rising publishing/paper costs. Then it will be every 50th page, 25th page. Then the ad will get bigger, little by little, until a full page advert is shown every few pages.

    Just reinvented a magazine, I know but I could see it happening. The fact that we now have ads showing up in cars at red lights…

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    • vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You need to burn old books first. Also old CD, DVD, BlueRay movies don’t have ads. There are so many movies produced you won’t be able to see all of them if you start right after born and keep tv on 24/7 for the rest of your days. Don’t get me started about old books and old music. People could literally stop buying those things and they will be fine.

      Most of us are just adicted to marketing, news and more things that literally don’t matter because you have no power to change those things. We’re just animals after all, we eat meat so we’re predator, we like to follow the lead.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amazon says “hold my beer”

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have a look at Qualityland, it has (satirical) ads in it. The whole thing is a comment on consumerism

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    • vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry I don’t watch ads, can be funniest joke on planet if there is brand name in it I don’t listen, my immune system don’t allow me to do that.

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• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seeming that I’m getting increasingly pissed off by Spotify giving 5 or more ads without 30 minute adless times and for every 5th song rather than every 8th or 10th, I’m gonna have even more stress from the doubling of all google ads.

  At least ublock origin lite does its job pretty well on YouTube, so I won’t need to worry until google eventually kills that too.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The real group getting screwed here are advertisers who used to get free protection against their campaigns running with excessive frequency.

  This change lets Google burns their customers ad budgets of a bunch of junk duplicate impressions.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yo, I heard you like ads so we put ads in your ads.

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• Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wasn’t Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that with the old administration?

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• bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like an awesome way to get me to boycott your product for annoying me

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You wanna triangular phone?

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You wanna new phone? Get this…it’s triangular!

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