ThePunnyMan

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well for one, in the press conference when he announced the CDC's recommendation to wear cloth masks, he emphasized that it was a voluntary measure and then added he wasn't going to do it. People look to their leaders for guidance. How many people refused to wear a mask despite the CDC's recommendation because the president felt the need to throw in his own opinion with his experts' recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm curious how this will affect creators. Now it is very obvious when YouTube is displaying an ad vs the content creator doing an ad read. If it becomes less obvious where the ad is coming from by injecting it into the stream, I wonder if they're hoping to shift some of the perception of excessive ads off of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

import antigravity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Turtles yes. Spiders not so much.

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

No. People are scary.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I know how obnoxious ads have become on the internet and I've seen how they have progressively gotten longer and more prevalent on YouTube but I don't really know how to feel about this. Conceptually, they are handling and storing so much video data their operating costs must be astronomical. As far as I know, advertisement is the main way they recoup any of that cost so I can't really blame them for this. Maybe they are just reaching a point where they are just too massive to work.