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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 108 points 11 months ago

Some of those that work ad tech are the same that write filters.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep. My day job is providing tools to marketing folks and improving lead gen. It pays me well.

But I also contribute to open source projects to unfuck the internet. I know the tricks people like me use.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Real heroes have shitty day jobs. Checks out.

Except Batman and Iron Man. Those guys also have mansions, hot chicks, cars, and sarcasm.

[-] LukeMedia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I want all of that fun stuff, not a boring day job

[-] dmonzel@lemm.ee 63 points 11 months ago

Oooooooo, is this the start of a RATM parody?

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 47 points 11 months ago

BLOCKING IN THE NAME OF

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 30 points 11 months ago

FUCK YOU I WON'T LOOK AT YOUR ADVERTS

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Should be good to bad, not bad to good

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