• Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 day ago

    Good joke, YouTube.

    Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we’ve had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don’t want and subscribe to services we don’t need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

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      I’m just so tired of ads nowadays, ads for cars i can’t afford, ads for crap i’m never going to buy, ads for the supermarket i’m going to no matter if they have some discount…it’s all useless and a waste of my time and invasion on my peace.

      I bought the devices, i pay for the internet connection and i pay the rent on this house, i decide what makes it inside my house.

      I don’t need this funny clip my supermarket made to market overpriced holiday food 46 times a day that lasts 60 seconds and is only funny the first time i see it. I’m not going to buy a tiny christmas cake that barely feeds a child for €15, realistically it’s value to me is €1,50 compared to my wage and amount of food i get in return. I’m buying store brand m&m’s and a loaf of bread like i do all year.

      If you can’t keep existing without shoveling truckloads of ads into my face, then go bankrupt…i don’t give a damn. You’re not worth €16 a month to me either or whatever the price is nowadays. Just fuck off i’ll get my entertainment elsewhere, heck i might dust off that ps4 and buy used dvd’s for 25 cents a piece.

      • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Yeah and a couple of things:

        Malware has directly passed through as networks multiple times and neither the server of ads nor the ad network were able to be held responsible for it.

        Right now it is common for ads to show apps that look like something popular but deploy malware. Nobody is taking responsibility for any of it. Ad networks aren’t well policed.

        It is irresponsible for a user not to block ads IMO but I also get to decide what packets of data traverse my network just like any other person or company. As a consumer I do not have to be responsible or care if a business model succeeds or not.

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              13 hours ago

              Well, sometimes you have to make choices: videos+ ads or nothing. Vote with your wallet, if you are to do so.

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                  That’s fine, if they’re able to do so. That’s why I wrote “sometimes”. I frankly fail to understand people’s addiction to YT. What’s more, Id really like all those crap YT, Twitch and the likes to disappear for good and go back to “written” internet. In this shitty era, a lot of useful info is actually buried in a crap load of self promotion and blabbering on those platforms (which I refuse to use).

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          1 day ago

          Who cares. These of people are YouTube addicts. Just stop using it, if you find it so unbearable.

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            Oh I totally agree with you, I was just making fun of the downvotes coming from hypocrites who don’t want to abandon their favorite megacorp but instead cry a river about ads.

            Now I hate ads like the next guy, but either I find a way to block them, or I move on.

            • Engywuck@lemm.ee
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              1 day ago

              Same here. These people are literally unable to vote with their wallet, not even metaphorically.

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      Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

      • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
      • disk space to store it
      • bandwidth to send it around the world
      • compute to transcode it and process it
      • real estate and security for the premises
      • power for the datacenter
      • ac to cool the servers
      • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
      • wages of devs for the app
      • yes, profits for the company

      Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.