#Adpocalypse
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martiansodas-blog · 9 months ago
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“Want a break from the ads? If you tap now to watch a short video, you’ll receive 30 minutes of ad free music.”
Allow “Website” to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?
“This website uses cookies to improve your experience,”
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letterstokareokay · 4 months ago
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Not y’all coming for my vents??
Ok here’s that: This. is. a. vent. account.
You’re gonna see stuff on my page that may make you uncomfortable. If it does: scroll! It’s that easy. I’ve been struggling with mental health for as long as I can remember and this tumblr page is what currently keeps me alive and active in communication, mkay? Everything on here is what I feel and think, even if it’s not the most pleasant thing. So please be understanding. Thx.
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madamepestilence · 1 year ago
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Okay, so I just wanna bring something up regarding YouTube (and Google by extension, as they fully own YouTube, and also Google [and Amazon] are currently being sued for being illegal monopolies)
So YouTube's bad updates have officially pushed me to Firefox, but I wanna break down some of their recent updates
The first thing they did was removing people's ability to watch videos if adblockers were present, which is borderline legal
There is no law in the US, where Google is hosted, that requires a user to disable adblockers on certain websites, meaning that YouTube blocking people from using adblockers and paying for their product/watching extensive ads instead isn't technically legal, but also isn't technically illegal
This is also the Adpocalypse 2, with ads being anywhere from 10 seconds to a full minute, and ads also run at the beginning of videos, the end of videos, as midrolls, as the starts of every chapter, and when you move your location in the video -
even on some videos that've disabled ads and use sponsorships - and these also run occasionally on videos marked for sleep-aids such as ASMR videos and on unmonetized videos that shouldn't have ads as the person who put up the video doesn't get paid
The next problematic update they put up was creating an artificial 5-second delay for Firefox users (this can be remedied with www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001) in uBO), which is in violation of antitrust law
What pushed me to Firefox is that the new update for Chrome (and all Chrome-based browsers), Manifest v3 will completely disable any extensions not directly authorized by Google, and this includes completely disabling uBlock Origin, which forces people not on Firefox or TorBrowser to be bombarded with ads and data scraping.
After moving to Firefox, I've noticed another thing that I'm 90% sure is another violation of antitrust law: In Chrome, there's 1080p. In Firefox, it's split into 1080p and 1080p Premium, reducing the intended bitrate and making videos visibly lower quality - requiring people to pay for YouTube Premium in order to use YouTube as intended.
What the fuck is happening?
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direbeastrex · 1 year ago
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Youtube's new 'three videos and then you will be blocked if you run an adblocker' has got me so fucking anxious. I couldn't pick 3 videos if I tried. What would I watch? Probably one of the rare animated movies you can still watch for free, or something that I can remember fondly- because I'm not subjecting myself to youtube's egregious, usually bigoted ads, and if I can help it, I just won't watch videos on youtube anymore *full stop*. I won't be able to afford to support all the creators I want and get their videos on patreon, but at least I have Nebula now? Not a lot of the folks I followed are on there though.
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thoughtsfortoknight · 5 months ago
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The irony of having to watch a 12 second unskippable ad to watch a 5 second video
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ingdamnit · 1 year ago
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Tumblr: no no why are you using an ad blocker? That hurts our feely weelyies. Also here's an unmitigated deluge of scams, rancid mobile game ads and explicit extreme cartoon gore if not just fetish material also advertizing shit mobile ads. Eat it up piggy. Our visceral contempt for your can't be understated. We clearly think you're the dumbest most vile filth and exist only to transport your wallets to your betters. Oink oink oink pay pigs.
Please disable ad blocker or pay us a ransom to reward us for having unbearably toxic ads. Fuck you. Give us money. Here's tumblr live. Pay us then gky.
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eldritch-bf · 6 months ago
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Yeah. Tumblr users have lots of disposable income for investment opportunities.
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thehouseofgrey · 1 year ago
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This fucking latest YouTube adpocalypse is so fucking funny to me because I’ve never seen her. I’ve literally never experienced whatever the fuck y’all are talking about. Skill issue.
Me n Firefox (with the Adnauseam extension) are over here making out with tongue and watching YouTube logged in completely unbothered by whatever hell y’all chromium users are in. Hope not using Firefox is worth it ✌🏾
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sunny-m00n · 1 year ago
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I can’t get through one video on an old internet virus without (so far) 10 ADS
YouTube is actually falling apart, I’m worried that any long video essays will be hell to get through if it’s this bad on a 20 and a half minute video-
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iwilltryalittlearter · 2 years ago
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Cackling because every ad in my feed now is shirts specifically for old men.
And the terrible thing is I’m actually a little tempted 😂😂
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ratttoro · 2 months ago
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been saying this
if something important like vitamins is being recommended to me by the same person i’m about to watch break the world record for most pizzas eaten in a day, i’m way less likely to buy it.
when i was younger, i used to think the things youtubers were sponsored by were fake or only for other youtubers, because they always seemed like influencer versions of actual products, and i still believe the only people who actually purchase these things are either “micro” or wannabe influencers, and people who are unfamiliar with how the internet works.
i don't think youtubers should be allowed to advertise online therapy or credit cards or prescription hair loss treatments. can you sell me a candy bar or something
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letterstokareokay · 6 months ago
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I could pull the cord out of my monster and beg you to strangle me. For I’d wish I could’ve died in the womb, bear my bloody tissue and drink it so you’d feel my pain.
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ingdamnit · 1 year ago
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Thanks Tumblr for constantly showing me the ad for the misegregation cuckold fetish game ad
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hasanabiyoutube · 11 days ago
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rocketlanterns · 1 year ago
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YouTube genuinely out here trying to cause it's own adpocalypse because fun fact: advertisers, like the people who spend money to shovel crap into people's eyes, they like adblockers.
They really like the fact that their advertising money doesn't get wasted on people who have made it clear that the advertising won't work on them.
Because the kind of person who doesn't install adblock is exactly the kind of person that advertising is most likely to work on. If people who the ads can't convert are removing themselves from the population, then more of the money spent by advertisers will lead to conversions.
What Google is doing is trying to force these users with very low conversion ratios back into the population, and that reflects on advertisers by making them spend more money on less clicks. And that's not even beginning to consider people who will fight against the anti adblock methods by using a more malicious or hardcore adblocker.
Imagine if they fuck up adblocking so much that all we are left with is Ad Nauseum, an ad blocker that works by allowing ads to load, hiding them, and then clicking on every single one of them to fuck up Google's precious profiling data. There is no advertiser on the planet that wants to spend more money to receive botted clicks, because bots aren't conversions.
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xenonreality · 11 days ago
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Yeah......nooooo... You know, children all that. Something. Algorithm. Look at me, something something.
Standard bad behavior with pointing fingers with talent that could be kicked and the view holes would make them head to some new persons like before for growth in the site. Standard whatever bs bla bla bla.
Unicorn zombie apocalypse.
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