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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] 223 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Most people, including myself, seem to agree, that ads were never the problem. When YouTube started, it had ads too and nobody cared. But the ads got worse and websites started to shove them down our throats. I miss the times of a single banner below a video. I don't think Google and all the others realise just how much determined nerds can achieve. So far the ad blockers seem to win the race, minus some minor setbacks.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some of those that work ad tech are the same that write filters.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep. My day job is providing tools to marketing folks and improving lead gen. It pays me well.

But I also contribute to open source projects to unfuck the internet. I know the tricks people like me use.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Real heroes have shitty day jobs. Checks out.

Except Batman and Iron Man. Those guys also have mansions, hot chicks, cars, and sarcasm.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooooooo, is this the start of a RATM parody?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

FUCK YOU I WON'T LOOK AT YOUR ADVERTS

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was October Spooky when Microsoft dropped the GetWinX.exe icon on everyone's Win7 and Win8 taskbars. The first time, we all followed the directions and dove into the registry to remove it, because it wasn't enough to just delete it. The icon would self restore.

Then Microsoft reinstalled their adware in a critical security update Big Mic also started using dark patterns making upgrading opt-out, and hiding the onay anksthay toggle.

Thats when an engineer, UltimateOutsider, I think, created the GetWinX Control Panel which not only did the full remove in a wizard but also monitored on boot to see if it came back.

It was a reassuring day. I think no matter how much the companies enshittify, it will only drive pissed off engineers to write hard bypasses. It's how we got the GCP. It's how we got Windows Loader for every release since XP's activation process.

[–] grue 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That kind of shit is why I run GNU, and so should everybody else.

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[–] Ensign_Crab 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When youtube started, the ads would load perfectly every single time and the video was a tiresome afterthought that would load in fits and starts if it loaded at all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That sounds like every streaming service

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use an ad blocker but I cringe when I see my wife viewing a short recipe online, on a page with 10+ ads.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why don't you help her? Do you not like her??

She's drowning and you're just standing there watching :( :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re assuming I haven’t tried?

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 14 points 1 year ago

I've offered. It doesn't bother my partner.

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[–] _number8_ 108 points 1 year ago (5 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...

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[–] Rhoeri 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can’t watch YouTube without getting ads with some gravy seal in camo walking around in the woods telling me there’s a storm coming.

Who’s allowing these clowns to spread their propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know what a "gravy seal" is, but I'm trying to picture it and I'm kinda laughing to myself

[–] Heavybell 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine a fat, old, or otherwise unfit civilian who has purchased tactical-looking gear and weapons, which he uses for aggressive posturing. That's my understanding of the term.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much spot on. This imaginary man also owns a truck too big to park and will assault you for being gay and/or brown. People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.

[–] grue 18 points 1 year ago

People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.

People like him populate rural America everywhere. The South is just slightly more rural than other parts of the country.

[–] TheBat 15 points 1 year ago

Member of Meal Team 6, Vanilla ISIS, or Y'all Qaeda. Usually drives a pavement princess.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Ads are the reason I stopped listening to regular FM radio. I used to live in a more rural town and it was at least half an hour to get to any city I would have to go to for more than basic groceries. Once when I was coming back somewhere that takes a whole hour drive to get home, I heard nothing but commercials the entire drive. Not one fucking song (aside from ad jingles) for a whole fucking hour. Ridiculous.

I switched to Sirius. And it was great.... Until they got bought/merged with XM. Now they have a monopoly on satellite radio, they immediately cut features and jacked up prices. They also started playing ads. So I cancelled that.

I've been using Spotify Premium ever since. It started off pretty great; they've recently been cutting back features and jacking up the price tho. So I may end up cancelling Spotify, too, if shit keeps trending downhill. Especially if they put ads in the premium service I pay for specifically to not have ads.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been adding music to my mp3 collection since Napster got started. It feels old fashioned now but I have yet to see a reason to use an alternative method. I actually have a lifetime subscription to SiriusXM. So I pay nothing, and I still don't listen to that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 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.

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[–] ad_on_is 41 points 1 year ago (16 children)

These ads make it impossible to use YT as a free learning platform anymore.

When I want to dig into a subject, I want to do it focused and without being distracted, and YT makes it impossible. The only content one can tolerate ads on is entertainment, which makes YT just another TikTok.

[–] Zealousideal_Fox900 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently sharing piped.video with every single educator there is. There should NEVER FUCKING EVER be ads on educational videos. Youtube is run by POS's and greedy shitfaces.

[–] DigitalFrank 17 points 1 year ago

Well, it's owned by Google...so...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in the Philippines and get ads for cock fighting.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in Canada and gets ads for Philippino cock.

[–] Lilith_the_serpent 22 points 1 year ago

Guess YouTube figured out your algorithm.

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[–] FlyingSquid 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi! We're Liberty Mutual! All of our ads are weird and quirky, which is funny! Quirky equals funny, right? You're laughing, aren't you? This one has an emu! An emu is funny, isn't it? Liberty Mutual!

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[–] JewGoblin 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

haven't watched an ad in almost a decade lol

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[–] mayo 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't see mention of Invidious in here so may as well share.

Like piped - front end for youtube. No ads.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it's not, but that totally looks like the domain of a porn site.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Baby, you're going to get piped so hard.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Fuck YouTube

[–] BilboBargains 14 points 1 year ago

YouTube AIDS

[–] TwilightVulpine 14 points 1 year ago

Not only the way they keep pushing more and more ads is becoming way too much, they don't have any standards for what sort of ads they push. From blatant political propaganda to petty false advertising of apps. A reckoning is way overdue.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Chumba casino ads are the so dystopian and bleak it's like I'm listening to an ad in a GTA game.

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