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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This. Ads can be somewhat okay as long as they don't interrupt or otherwise hinder the functionality of the website or application I'm using.

YouTube's video ads interrupt the main functionality of the website for the full duration of the ads (some are skippable after 5s).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the early days of the Internet, ads were ok.

Then the popups came.

Then came the popup blockers.

It's been an arms race since the beginning. The ad-throwers get greedy, not knowing when to stop pushing. That's how things escalate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pop-up divs annoy the fuck out of me. And most websites have gotten smart about them by creating the div ids on the fly so ublock can take them on.

I'm getting close to completely disabling JavaScript at this rate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I started using noscript on my phone despite how annoying it is to use day to day. Desktop have more tools to manage pop ups better, but on mobile the only reliable way I've found is to nuke everything and just re enable what you need.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As a matter of principle I will doff my headphones and look away or hyperfocus on the specific area to skip the ad waiting for it to become available.