We love stealing from the rich (the advertisers) and giving it to the poor (ourselves). We are proud heirs of Robin Hood because evil commie Walt Disney spoiled us with promises of a day in which the Adder of Nottingham would be jailed and tortured by tickling for eternity by Tinkerbell.
Many people bled and sweated to make those adverts. It’s only right that you should watch them in their entirety *and* read all the small print at the bottom of the screen!
Conditionally feeding the beast is still feeding the beast. If you wanna support someone, toss ‘em a buck via their/your donation platform of choice. One dollar sounds pitiful, but it’s actually orders of magnitude more than just your own views of their site rack up in ad revenue, so it’s still better for everyone (except the ad men).
Any time you find yourself thinking a site or the internet needs ads in order to exist, remember that the ad industries #1 client is itself. The thing they always absolutely NEED to sell as hard as possible above and before any brand or product, is the idea of their own necessity.
It’s not just the ads that are a problem; it’s also the data miners and trackers. I have apps installed to block cookies and tracking software as well as most pop ups and ads. Some still get thru but most do not. Occasionally I’ll got to a site for info, some of the commercial news sites are notorious for this, and they’ll demand cookies be allowed. I just go elsewhere for info. It all depends on who the site is and whether I think they should set a cookie or not such as the bank I deal with. Windows 10 has taken intrusive methods to a new level what with their attempt to prevent 3rd party software from installing and by actually allowing ads and propaganda to pop up on the desktop even when the device isn’t surfing the web. Fortunately they can be stopped but with all sorts of dire warnings about the security of your device being compromised. I made the changes to my win10 device and installed my own security software and haven’t had a problem with it.
We need apps that not only shield us from attackers but that counterattack sending them deadly viruses that destroy their computers (and hopefully their miserable lives as social parasites).
Here it’s two ads that are skipable. Also usually only at the start and sometimes the middle, more than two are still rare.
What’s kinda annoying me personally is that they started playing ads in front of the songs of my favourite band even though i know they don’t have ads activated since they don’t use or need youtube for money.
It seems they sometimes forget which accounts have monetisation.
I think demonetised means it was onse monetised but had monetisation removed. It’s something else than a channel that was deliberately never monetised (in this case for the exact purpose of not bothering the fans with ads).
What gets me are when they play ‘adverts’ which are just entire music videos but are attached to completely different genres of music.
“Oh, you’re watching S Club 7? Here’s an advert for some screaming metal music.”
Yeah…..the reason adblocker exists is because advertisers got to fucking obnoxious for their britches. When I could go to completely fine and ordinary websites and catch virus from their advertisements and then have a damn screamer ad going on in the background on some random tab and auto playing video ads……. These things would KILL people who had limited internet and annoy the shit out of me. So I carved them out of everywhere and now if I think I want to support someone I’ll check their page with ads to find out if its bearable (*doesn’t really have the money to support otherwise*) and then go with that. Youtube NEVER gets this because its ads are bullshit, probably don’t pay the person I want to anywhere because their policies are bullshit, and they don’t REMOTELY try to fix the audio of their videos. The number of times I’ve been listening to something to relax on my phone and suddenly had some asshole screaming in my ear about something I will NEVER care about is absurd.
Interesting ongoing convo.
I apparently lead a sheltered like with my antivirus and malware products.
Anyway,…is the defendress getting larger up top?
What’s Bad Tink doing? get back to Laser Pony, Keith and the scheduled jello wrestling match of Bad good girls.
Halt, Evildoers! If you’re not watching adverts, it’s like you’re stealing from the advertisers!
[Hero Name for Rent]-Man will not stand for this injustice!
We love stealing from the rich (the advertisers) and giving it to the poor (ourselves). We are proud heirs of Robin Hood because evil commie Walt Disney spoiled us with promises of a day in which the Adder of Nottingham would be jailed and tortured by tickling for eternity by Tinkerbell.
Or something like that…
Many people bled and sweated to make those adverts. It’s only right that you should watch them in their entirety *and* read all the small print at the bottom of the screen!
Ads? What ads?
Yup, adblocker it is.
If i REALLY want to support someone, i turn it off.
Conditionally feeding the beast is still feeding the beast. If you wanna support someone, toss ‘em a buck via their/your donation platform of choice. One dollar sounds pitiful, but it’s actually orders of magnitude more than just your own views of their site rack up in ad revenue, so it’s still better for everyone (except the ad men).
Any time you find yourself thinking a site or the internet needs ads in order to exist, remember that the ad industries #1 client is itself. The thing they always absolutely NEED to sell as hard as possible above and before any brand or product, is the idea of their own necessity.
The first lie any intelligent parasite will tell you is that you need it.
This is my take on the intrusive irrelevant BS that is advertising: https://www.hypnoticdreams.com/redefining-obscenity/
It’s not just the ads that are a problem; it’s also the data miners and trackers. I have apps installed to block cookies and tracking software as well as most pop ups and ads. Some still get thru but most do not. Occasionally I’ll got to a site for info, some of the commercial news sites are notorious for this, and they’ll demand cookies be allowed. I just go elsewhere for info. It all depends on who the site is and whether I think they should set a cookie or not such as the bank I deal with. Windows 10 has taken intrusive methods to a new level what with their attempt to prevent 3rd party software from installing and by actually allowing ads and propaganda to pop up on the desktop even when the device isn’t surfing the web. Fortunately they can be stopped but with all sorts of dire warnings about the security of your device being compromised. I made the changes to my win10 device and installed my own security software and haven’t had a problem with it.
We need apps that not only shield us from attackers but that counterattack sending them deadly viruses that destroy their computers (and hopefully their miserable lives as social parasites).
Now you know how the ad jingles radio station became so popular in “Demolition Man”…
Here it’s two ads that are skipable. Also usually only at the start and sometimes the middle, more than two are still rare.
What’s kinda annoying me personally is that they started playing ads in front of the songs of my favourite band even though i know they don’t have ads activated since they don’t use or need youtube for money.
It seems they sometimes forget which accounts have monetisation.
Even if the channel or video has been demonetised Youtube themselves can make money from the adverts.]
I think demonetised means it was onse monetised but had monetisation removed. It’s something else than a channel that was deliberately never monetised (in this case for the exact purpose of not bothering the fans with ads).
What gets me are when they play ‘adverts’ which are just entire music videos but are attached to completely different genres of music.
“Oh, you’re watching S Club 7? Here’s an advert for some screaming metal music.”
The sad thing is, I reached the limit of my patience back in 2013.
To imagine that it’s only gotten worse since then is terrifying.
And nobody is talking about the Pineapple tablet…
Probably because the Pineapple tablet has been many times featured before.
Yeah…..the reason adblocker exists is because advertisers got to fucking obnoxious for their britches. When I could go to completely fine and ordinary websites and catch virus from their advertisements and then have a damn screamer ad going on in the background on some random tab and auto playing video ads……. These things would KILL people who had limited internet and annoy the shit out of me. So I carved them out of everywhere and now if I think I want to support someone I’ll check their page with ads to find out if its bearable (*doesn’t really have the money to support otherwise*) and then go with that. Youtube NEVER gets this because its ads are bullshit, probably don’t pay the person I want to anywhere because their policies are bullshit, and they don’t REMOTELY try to fix the audio of their videos. The number of times I’ve been listening to something to relax on my phone and suddenly had some asshole screaming in my ear about something I will NEVER care about is absurd.
Interesting ongoing convo.
I apparently lead a sheltered like with my antivirus and malware products.
Anyway,…is the defendress getting larger up top?
What’s Bad Tink doing? get back to Laser Pony, Keith and the scheduled jello wrestling match of Bad good girls.