Annoying.

YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.worldEnglish
      521·
      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 constitution

      Buy a ford

      Here’s a pornographic/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

        • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          My 6yo gets a ton of ads for insurance, about the same amount as for toys. It’s weird.

        • FraidyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          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.

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        That thing, you know that thing that you already buy? Here’s an ad for it! Now we get to lie and say we were the reason you bought it!

        It’s so fucking weird how I got way more ads for runescape when I played runescape, and it’s not like I watch less runescape content today. They also seem to think I’m a girl because whenever I do get something unique it’s always for purses, make up, fashion and hygiene products; all of which I have a below-zero chance of ever buying.

        • Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I have never gotten an ad for a game I was currently playing. For me it’s always these mobile games, namely ones that use hentai art to sell the game, I have found out some of these are not actually porn games, or the most recent offering from the biggest studios.

          Oh you reminded me, hygiene products, all sorts of hygiene products that have been branded to assure me I am not gay, or a woman, for wanting bathe and groom myself. There is also the one where some douche tells me I am not a dish.

          I never get fashion ones, however my feed is periodically bombarded with videos to people who make subculture fashion for women. like lolita dresses. I have no idea why. The only thing I can think of is that I show an interest in music with associated subcultures and they just do not know how to get them right. Hey, this guy listened to Lingua Ignota, let’s send him 20 channels discussing pastel colored lolita clothes and kawaii culture.

    • canthidium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      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.

    • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      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.