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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] _number8_ 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if they come for yt-dlp i will record their videos with a fucking VCR and clip out the ads so help me god

[–] grue 18 points 1 year ago

If I'm provoked to retaliation, my tactic would be to start aggressively mirroring other people's content to PeerTube.

I haven't done so yet out of respect for the creators, but my patience with Google is wearing thinner and thinner...

[–] netburnr 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a vcr in my closet, I don't know why, but maybe their days are coming back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've got a Betamax at home. One day I'll pick up a tape, to see if it works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read this in Brandon Rogers as Bobby Worst voice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Put that candy back down I ain't buying you that meth