Does no one care about how much it costs to hosts and stream the massive amount of videos that Youtube hosts?
We all just think that we are entitled to get all that for free?
If you don't want ads, just pay for the damn thing.
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
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Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
#942Does no one care about how much it costs to hosts and stream the massive amount of videos that Youtube hosts? We all just think that we are entitled to get all that for free? If you don't want ads, just pay for the damn thing.
I'd bet they are showing us far more ads than necessary to run the platform, and many of them are trash (crap product, abrasive ad, etc.) Not to mention the tradeoffs with privacy.
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#943The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. That’s not to say whether or not the advertisement is for a product or service for which the viewer is interested in purchasing but how it relates to the context in which it is viewed. People complain about billboards next to a countryside highway because it is entirely irrelevant to driving through the countryside. Actual complaints may b…
> I don’t complain about advertisements at Costco because that would be insane. I complain about the advertisements on Youtube because they’re irrelevant and weird but somehow normalized.
Calling it like it is.
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#944The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. That’s not to say whether or not the advertisement is for a product or service for which the viewer is interested in purchasing but how it relates to the context in which it is viewed. People complain about billboards next to a countryside highway because it is entirely irrelevant to driving through the countryside. Actual complaints may b…
Sometimes people use the internet for non-commercial reasons. Originally those were the _only_ reasons that people used it. However the Silicon Valley ethos of online advertising faciltated by so-called "tech" coompany intermediaries assumes _all_ internet use is commercial in nature.
Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
#945Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ads are a brute force approach to the challenge of having useful information (company X offers Y) reach their target (people who needs Y presently or in the future). If you say no ads should exist, then what alternatives would you have for that challenge?
Humanity lived without ads for thousands of years, I think we can do without.
That time coincided with humanity living near the lowest standards of life.
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#946Not sure what this says about me, but I ran into youtube putting a 3 video limit on me because I was using adblocking and when I hit that limit I just ended up going outside to have a lovely day. Honestly wish video limits was just a feature I could turn on. Funny enough, awhile back they made it so that if you turned off watch history, they would disable the front page feed. Not sure if that was seen as a punishment…
> if you turned off watch history, they would disable the front page feed
I wish that was a configureable feature. I do have watch history turned on, and I find it useful and want to keep it, but I would love to have a cleaner less noisy front page.
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#947This fight will soon take up a whole new level. If they start serving ads inside the content stream, blockers can use AI to determine if the content is ad or not. I don't think this fight will ever be over.
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#948The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. That’s not to say whether or not the advertisement is for a product or service for which the viewer is interested in purchasing but how it relates to the context in which it is viewed. People complain about billboards next to a countryside highway because it is entirely irrelevant to driving through the countryside. Actual complaints may b…
I think special offers are not really advertising.
I view advertising as something brought to my attention that I wouldn't otherwise buy. Being made aware of special offers is more to tweak the moment of buying stuff I was going to buy anyway but waiting for a decent price.
If I go to MediaMarkt and there's a signpost at the phone area saying "Samsung S25 100 euro discount" then I don't think this is advertising. After all the S25's are lying on the shelf right there whether the offer is there or not. I am there to at least consider buying one and I am there already looking for one before I saw the sign, it's just a notification that the price is low.
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#949Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes a lot of time, money, care, education and love to grow human individual. Who would dare to even start considering paying high fees for the honor of receiving some of their time and attention? Why are video provider not paying people to obtain this privilege? No one dare to think they can get that for free, right?
They are paying you, they are paying you with free content. It's actually a trade. Free content in exchange for your attention on ads
That's not how it works at societal level. The social structure is funnelling people to some mind-time eater. The fact that it's labeled free doesn't matter much. There is nothing as free content consumption, because people necessarily need to pay with time and attention they allocate to access it, not even mentioning all the extra burden like acquiring access to the device/platform/seat/whatever without which there is no way one is going to be spectator of anything.
One can always pay more attention at the continuous flow of local events that cosmos provide to self, instead of whatever other humans wish they would focus on.
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#950Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steel-manning the argument, near where I live, it's not that uncommon to see small to moderately sized advertisements along the road, such as a sign outside/near the entrance of a farm that's selling eggs, meat, etc. I am wholly unopposed to this. In fact, I'm very supportive of this, and used them to find a farm to buy local honey from. Whereas the stereotypical massive slabs whose advertisements get wallpapered on,…
And where I live it's an ever growing hell of political signs, dominos pizza, and anyone else who realizes there is no enforcement against this wide scale littering. The signs are never removed and continue piling up. Abandoned / unmonitored lots are also a frequent target. And it's rapidly getting worse Glad you're cool with it though, I guess? Cuz I've considered running for office on the sole platform of having th…
> Glad you're cool with it though, I guess?
Just to be clear, the advertisements that I'm referencing are ones like this (https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-signs-at-roadside-advertis...), where the goods being sold are sold on the property the sign is on, ie, they're basically shop signs. They are usually pretty small too, with larger ones needing the approval of the local authority. There does seem to be pretty good enforcement on this too. I'm definitely against advertisement billboards: those big slabs that are just there to distract you with any arbitrary advertisement that paid to be wallpapered onto it.