174
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because it only affects one percent of the userbase. There's no short term loss. Your clients (ad companies, Big Corp) see that you're Doing Something. And, more importantly, Big Tech is removing the copper wiring out of the walls. They want to monetize ad space as much as humanly possible. YouTube is already showing 4-5 ads to normies as we speak.

[-] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My 13 yo cousin won't install or let me install an adblocker on his phone and it's killing me because he keeps complaining to his mom that he needs YouTube plus or whatever it's called, but then I say "sponsorblock is free" and he says "oh I'm used to the ads" aaaaaaaaaaaaa why is he like this?

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

"oh I'm used to the ads"

In bad country, the children have resigned themselves in being the target of relentless predatory advertising through an implanted sense of worship to highly marketable treats.

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly, it won't be long before you can't use a blocker for those ads anyway. Most services now inject the ads right into the data stream for the video you're watching dynamically. To try and block those ads is to try and block the same video of the content you want to watch.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 months ago

The day that happens is the day I go back to the same full-scale, all-media piracy I was pulling in my teens. Pretty sure the old schooner's still seaworthy.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

If that happens and it's truly impossible to work around it will finally be the day I get off my ass and read Das Kapital in its entirity.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think this will be as big an issue as people fear. Sponsorblock already is a crowd-sourced method of blocking the same video of the content you want to watch, and it works borderline perfectly. Just do the same but by still or video-clip instead of timestamp, job done.

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well he was raised by youtube. he's been seeing the ads his whole life, sponsor and otherwise. it's like with older people who don't mind seeing ads on their netflix plan - its just tv for them.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I was raised by YouTube as well, it's just a matter of being radicalized to stop giving a shit and prioritizing yourself. I'd still be watching ads on yt if I never became a leftist.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
174 points (98.9% liked)

technology

23239 readers
325 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS