uBlock Origin doesn’t work on radio, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to endure ads on YouTube.
Ikr? If they still complain about YouTube ads the suffering can't be that bad or they would finally install a fucking ad blocker.
a LOT of people have no idea how any of that works. And I don't shit on them, I help them. Sometimes I install uBlock on people's computers without telling them because if I told them then whenever their printer stops working it would be my fault, but they often get surprised after a while like, huh I don't get ads anymore that's weird and great...
Last person I helped install Firefox+uBlock on their phone went back to the YouTube apps in no time, as far as I understand they just liked the app better. Evidently a lot of people don't mind ads that much, which is ludicrous to me.
Now I'm picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.
VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don't pretend to know how that works, but it does.
When it doesn't I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don't mind because I don't understand what the fuck they're saying and it sounds funny.
Youtubes ads for liberty have ensured that I will never, ever, evereverever buy insurance from liberty.
Why tf would I want to give my money to a company that has been, basically, waterboarding me with ads? Ruining my entertainment? It makes no sense.
My logic is that they are spending way too much money on advertising, so it will be more expensive for me for no gain.
The irony of not able to be liberated from LIBERTYLIBERTYLIBERTY!LIBERTY!
You gotta admit the baby ads are fun
It's pronounced "Bibberty"
Liberty mutual ads suck. Full stop.
I've seen ads though that I didn't hate, or actually showed something interesting/cared about. I can't remember what it was lol.
Like there's a .0001% chance to find a good ad. I also just never see any, but my mom watches a lot of YT on our TV and refuses to try SmartTube, so that's the only place where I'm forced to see ads...
No ad is fun, no ad is art, no ad is good. Anyone involved in the creation of ads is a terrible person and you are brainwashed by a culture in decline
I agree with a lot of this but I think it's excessive to say involvement in any ad makes you terrible. Local band puts up flyer at local bar. Karaoke MC says he'll be at bar Y next week and back here same day next month. I don't think that makes them bad people. I certainly don't think it makes the people who designed the flyer bad people. I think ads have become bad and pervasive, but in reality they could and should serve a purpose. If there's something I'd be interested in, I want to know about it, but there's no way for me to subconsciously just get all of that information. Newsletters, another form of advertising, are a great way to do this, but those too have suffered. Ads could at least be somewhat informative, but now they're all just "brand awareness". I think that's one of the big issues. I understand the perspective of wanting a 0 ad life, but I think a lot of that mindset comes from the abuse ads have done. Autoplay video ads? Abhorrent. Small ad on a bar website telling me when happy hour is? Helpful. That's just my opinion, obviously, but I thought I'd mention as an alternative perspective.
I originally got XM radio because it was ad free.
Then they merged with Sirrus making it a monopoly and they immediately:
Jacked up the price
Reduced benefits
Removed programming
Injected ads everywhere
And while this was happening, everyone was up in arms over Activision/Blizzard and the fate of fucking COD in another merger treated more like an absolute monopoly than the actual monopoly with the satellite radio providers.
Radio "solved" it by syncing their ads. What are you gonna switch to? Other ads?
Behold the innovation! Praise capitalism!
Me: turns off radio for 5 minutes
Radio stations everywhere: wait no reeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
car manufacturers: actually we found that people drive safer if we disable the radio off button when driving
The BBC. No adverts.
It's great, but I don't think it would work in USA. Imagine the reaction of Americans if they would have to pay $200 a year for a TV license.
I’ve stopped listening to the radio, watching TV, or using social media altogether. They keep interrupting my ads with content.
I use ublock origin. I don't see no ads.
No ublock for when you walk around outside and get assaulted by ads though...
That's what a spray can and molotow is for
Then they went with just having the radio performers do the ad in the middle of the show, and we're back to that again with youtubers sticking ad reads in the middle of their videos...
I remember when that used to be considered "tacky." In fact a whole lot of things so-called "influencers" do today are things that probably would've gotten them labeled as "tacky" and "sell-outs" back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.
I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that "Honey" (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.
Making a living as a YouTuber is a sad business in general, even millions of views are usually not enough to live off of it, especially when you actually have production costs beyond the single creator's own living expenses and their personal computer.
Advertising is the inflamed appendix of capitalism.
I have 2 wolves, etc
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