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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember the time when people used to have a stack of CDs in the car? Some cars even had a a fancy player that could hold multiple discs.

[–] hardcoreufo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I wish I still had a cd player or an aux jack. At least I can load up mp3s on a flash drive.

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

At least those flash drives can easily store your entire library these days. You only need one, and it doesn’t even have to be an expensive one.

[–] hardcoreufo 2 points 1 year ago

I do have a little 1TB drive I got for 50 bucks on sale. It works great. The car software not so much. It picks up right where I left off in a song when I turned the car off but when the track finishes it skips to the first song of the next album then begins to play normally. Never had that issue with a CD player.

[–] JewGoblin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

poor people still do, at least older poor people

[–] TwilightVulpine 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Older poorer people. Younger poorer people stuff a bunch of songs in an USB stick.

[–] JewGoblin 3 points 1 year ago

I just emptied out an apartment of an old lady and she had sleeves of DVD's and newer DVDS too