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there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites (lemmy.world)

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

Especially when creators find interesting ways to work them in, which is pretty often, in my experience. They're the one type of ad that doesn't annoy me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse than in YouTube/etc videos.

I've cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

It used to be that you'd see one here and there, but the volume of "sponsored" results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

It's one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.