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Why don't we let bots interact with ads? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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

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Take YouTube for example: Suppose an adblocker redirects all the ads on a video on a different tab on a browser and plays them on mute in background, what's wrong with that?

Maybe it can also interact with it and close the screen that pops up, automatically.

I have never bought anything ads show. I hate the product in the ad more if it interrupts what I am watching.

If our AIs can watch videos and form summary on it, why can't we develop a bot just to watch ads?

If you wanna get even more flexible, I am sure an ad contains what it is about in some text. You tell your adblocker what you are interested in, and it will pass the filtered ads to you!

YouTube and other companies are getting aggressive because less number of ads are being interacted with and we get more agressive in stopping more ads. Maybe we can let our adblocker know that "I am fine with watching 1 ad per video", so both sides compromise a little while still being in control.

Edit: I am made aware that https://adnauseam.io/ can do this. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds like you’re almost describing AdNauseam. https://adnauseam.io/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Went here to say just that. I used to use that, but there are SO MANY ads, that AdNauseam actually slowed my computer down, so I had to go back to good old μBlock

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If enough people used this or similar software, it could actually be the end of aggressive internet advertising. Once the companies paying for the ads came to realize that they were paying for like, 98% empty clicks, the amount they'd be willing to pay would go down, and ads would theoretically no longer be enough of an income stream to be relied on, for better or worse.

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

Can this be used along with uBlock Origin? Would they interfere with each other?

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

It's a fork of Ublock origin and merges upstream changes so there's no reason to use both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see. Good to know that thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah! Perfect. Thank you!