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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google must be scraping the bottom of the barrel of crazy that's also stupid enough to pay for ads, I think it's common knowledge now that Google games analytics to artificially inflate the appearance of ad impact.