• MrAegis@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Remember when ads were short and easy to skip? They’re just getting more annoying now.

    I could bear them back then, but now I can tell immediately if I accidentally use the mobile app on my phone vs my phone’s web browser.

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      1 year ago

      This is the thing about ads. It’s never, ever enough. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and it doesn’t matter. We still get more ads.

      Basically I think we are going to get more and more alternatives to the web, and find information and entertainment without ads.

      I know many people who are back on piracy now. It’s just impossible to take all the ads.

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      1 year ago

      I have heard that the ads are getting worse and longer/unskipable. I do wonder how YouTube determines what the ‘balance’ should be. You know they have the usage and engagement statistics to back up the increase. It did get to a point where I said there was no way I could continue to use YouTube as it was; but it was also around the time that I pretty much switched to YouTube for content over Netflix/Hulu/Disney+/TV so Preimum was a no brainer as I could drop 3 or 4 streaming services for YouTube.

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        1 year ago

        My understanding is that as rates have gone way down the last couple of years and it wouldn’t surprise me if Google just has less high quality ads and is dipping into the crappy cheaper ad buys to fill the space.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      Once, I played the first YouTube of the day on the Roku, and instantly got 2 minutes of unskipable ads (4, 30 second segments) with (what I would categorize as) unnecessarily sexual content on a children’s playdough video. That was when I installed and configured PiHole for the Roku. That was the last straw. My 2-yo niece should not have seen a dude’s butt. A 5-second video-age-appropriate ad, ok. An age-appropriate banner on the bottom, ok. 2 minutes of unskipable adult ads on a kid’s video, no. I started blocking, when they started intruding.