1003
Demand ad companies take security seriously first and maybe we'll talk.
(tesseract.dubvee.org)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
1003 points (98.4% liked)
Programmer Humor
19503 readers
318 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I swear I'm about done with YT. The ads are long, overabundant, irrelevant, and timed specifically to fuck with people in the middle of specific segments of content. I mean, I keep getting ads for Oppenheimer for the past four days. I already own Oppenheimer - and Google knows this. My Google account is linked to my MoviesAnywhere account, they have this information. What is the point of "targeted" advertisements if they net the advertiser zero value? Is Google just messing with users trying to block their ads at this point?
Half the point of ads these days isn’t to advertise to you, it’s to piss you off enough to upgrade to a paid plan. If they happen to also make money from the adverts, then that’s just an added bonus.
I'll never pay. I've spent so much money of failed Google products at this point they owe me YT premium for life. If they make bypassing ads impossible I'll just stop watching.
I feel the same. I don’t do ads. If a product doesn’t have an ad-free product that I’m willing to pay for, then that product doesn’t exist for me. Similarly, if a paid product decides to introduce ads (I’m looking at you Amazon) I’m immediately cancelling.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12
I'd say we haven't got to all-despising baby skull yet, but youtube still keeps trying to recommend Joe Rogan.
If the baby skull is all-despising, doesn't that mean it isn't bigoted anymore and is thus paradoxically suboptimal?
You're not kidding. My girlfriend started talking about this until I straight up told her to stop. She already has ublock on pc she knows there's a way, she's just willing to pay to not have ads on her YouTube TV app because they're frustrating.
your gf is kind of a tool and needs to crack or replace her TV.
Eh I get what you mean even if it does sound sorta mean and I don't entirely disagree. I would just call it ignorance, she wasn't aware that you could get cracked apps for tvs or that just hooking up your pc to the TV is an easier alternative to all of that. Now she knows and she's all about it.
Were planning to move in together soonish and I told her I would handle all the techside of stuff and that she can just let me know what she wants and I'll do it.
yeah I'm usually the 'I will make your machines stop using you' friend. which is probably why I'm so bitter about people putting up with this shit.
Smarttube works well on my android TV. Comes with adblock and sponsorblock enabled. I'd bet my TV is spying on me in some way, so yeah, PC and TV disconnected from the Internet would probably be better.
She has a roku TV which I've read a bit about cracking but it sounds sorta annoying. Once we move in I'm planning to get a projector and hook it up to a mini pc with a wireless small mouse and keyboard. We mostly use it for movie nights anyways.
That is essentially the existence of marketers in general.
I can't remember the last time I've bought a product because a commercial was successful in getting me to. Every commercial anymore is just to annoy. Annoy you with things you obviously wouldn't want to buy. Annoy you with the knowledge that instead of paying the people running the company fairer wages, they invest millions into making said stupid commercial. As well as not improving the product or service in any conceivable way. That's all it is.