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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ads are the reason I stopped listening to regular FM radio. I used to live in a more rural town and it was at least half an hour to get to any city I would have to go to for more than basic groceries. Once when I was coming back somewhere that takes a whole hour drive to get home, I heard nothing but commercials the entire drive. Not one fucking song (aside from ad jingles) for a whole fucking hour. Ridiculous.

I switched to Sirius. And it was great.... Until they got bought/merged with XM. Now they have a monopoly on satellite radio, they immediately cut features and jacked up prices. They also started playing ads. So I cancelled that.

I've been using Spotify Premium ever since. It started off pretty great; they've recently been cutting back features and jacking up the price tho. So I may end up cancelling Spotify, too, if shit keeps trending downhill. Especially if they put ads in the premium service I pay for specifically to not have ads.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

Remember the time when people used to have a stack of CDs in the car? Some cars even had a a fancy player that could hold multiple discs.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wish I still had a cd player or an aux jack. At least I can load up mp3s on a flash drive.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

At least those flash drives can easily store your entire library these days. You only need one, and it doesn’t even have to be an expensive one.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do have a little 1TB drive I got for 50 bucks on sale. It works great. The car software not so much. It picks up right where I left off in a song when I turned the car off but when the track finishes it skips to the first song of the next album then begins to play normally. Never had that issue with a CD player.

[-] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

poor people still do, at least older poor people

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Older poorer people. Younger poorer people stuff a bunch of songs in an USB stick.

[-] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I just emptied out an apartment of an old lady and she had sleeves of DVD's and newer DVDS too

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