@@VotexforxmeGuess everyone who's ever used a sink should know everything about plumbing and everyone who's ever stepped into a building should know everything about architecture then.
@@user-lv4ek9lk4l (stop fucking replying to me its bombarding my notifs and i dont want to read your shit, use it, You do you.) brave was created by someone who believes anti-vax theories (and is homophobic), not telling you to stop using it but just putting that out there
The average youtube experience: Click Title -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> thirty second intro -> one minute sponsor spot -> 15 seconds unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> three minutes -> ad interrupts mid sentence -> four more minutes -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> video's conclusion -> click away or pause video before it ends to avoid more ads.
I have almost gotten heart attack when my revanced was not working. Then i updated it. It's impossible to experience anything in internet without adblock.
For a short time recently, UA-cam tried to be sneaky by allowing you to "skip" ads but in actuality you'd tap the next button which immediately started another ad. I'd imagine people were rightfully pissed off so they removed it. It's a hellhole off of mobile devices. Whenever I decide to watch stuff on my TV, the ads have a countdown timer. First timer is how long until you can finally skip the damn ads, second timer is how long the ad break is. I remember getting one ad break with a 99+ minute runtime. The moment I saw that, I muttered "you can suck my cock and balls, UA-cam"
I honestly dont know what you guys are talking about... On sketchy sites - yes, unwatchable, but on youtube (if you are logged in) its actually like 1 or 2 ads for 20 min video, never been worse
Examples, UA-cam and Spotify premium ads All it makes me want to do is go to their hq and ask them to knock it off with the ads that are like 5 in a row
On our tv, youtube will haave an ad that says it's skippable in 5 seconds and when you hit skip, it starts a 30 second unskippable ad like a punishment.
I haven't had that but on my TV when watching videos over an hour long I'll get like 6 unskippable ads and a pop up saying "less ad breaks for this long video" meanwhile it's the same amount of ad breaks just with more ads each.
What I find funny is that since UA-cam banned Adblockers, the people behind the extension/browser/etc have to constantly refine and reprogram whatever they were running to avoid being detected by UA-cam. So all in all, UA-cam just made Adblocking extensions, browsers and so on even better than before. And they broadcasted to everyone - who didn't know Adblockers were a thing - that Adblock exists.
Yeah, you can see ads show up for like a fraction of a second before being immediately terminated now. I like watching youtube and the adblocker fighting for control
another trick is to use essentially abandon ware, samsung internet is so forgotten that they don't update the computer version of youtube but that also means the same ad blocker has worked for years
@@PrestonLK It's not Streisand effect. Adblocks are already widely known. This is just an arms race effect. Like how in times of war humanity makes significant leaps in technology development.
@@mranderson9553Until UA-cam ends support for your abandonware and blocks access to the old versions of the site. Just the other day I had to explain to my mother that she won't be able to watch UA-cam through the app on her old iPad anymore. Granted I did find a workaround and she's now able to use the youtube app on the old ipad but even that workaround is eventually going to stop working.
I remember ads used to be just images and animated gifs placed around the website. Now it's super intrusive and some can even be malware that open you up to nastier things.
That's you looking through rose tinted glasses. 20 years ago there were flash player adds, autoplaying videos, full screen pop-ups, redirect loops or even videos that followed the cursor. Ads got better for some time when google consolidated the market. Now it's going to shit again.
I _never_ turn off my adblock and exit any site that asks me to do it. Any site that asks me to turn off my adblock as a condition for viewing is not worth my time.
I would like to also mention that I've noticed that mobile ads are now designed where you have to tap the X button 2-3 consecutive times. But the X button has also been scaled to the smallest size possible so you can fat finger into opening the ad. It is super annoying and feels like it should be illegal.
I've had success with using a dns black hole on my local network, so my phone sees much less ads. It helps with everything else on ths network too. And my phone doesn't have to do any extra work.
I think the pinnacle of this is when my college professors try to hold a lecture using a youtube video and are forced to show students 60 seconds of unskippable casino ads before playing a 30 second demonstration video.
Having used adblockers since like 2006 seeing the internet without it is disgusting. Have you ever seen what Facebook looks like without adblock? Or youtube? It's horrific.
i started using adblocks when i started to work in 2019 because they started to annoy me at the time and i just turned ublock off one time on few websites and got obliterrated by ads. i wasnt able to read news or click on sites because ADS
i started using adblocks when i started to work in 2019 because they started to annoy me at the time and i just turned ublock off one time on few websites and got obliterrated by ads. i wasnt able to read news or click on sites because ADS
That scene from "Ready Player One" where they say "we can sell 80% of the user's screen space before inducins seizures" comes to mind. It was the warning of a dystopia, not a challenge! I have been working with Bing Ads for a year (time limited contract) and looked at a few of those news pages that use extensive ads. If there's a cookie banner without the option for "I don't consent", that page would disappear from Bing EU (for violating EU laws). If there's a page with a popup ad, that violates TOS and the page gets removed. If more than 25% of the landing page is ads (it's scary how often that's the case), that website gets removed. I know that Google has a similar process. Those people are critically underpaid (minimum wage only) but it needs to be done.
I had no idea there's activity like that. I am unfortunately beyone help, just so used ot ad blockers I would just use internet a LOT less if I couldn't block like 99% of the ads. I already don't use mobile for content consumption for the same reason.
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
My most hated ad mechanic is what i call a Click Trap. Its an invisible layer placed all over the screen, wherever you click, it auto opens a random shady website. Some times it takes several attempts to actually click what you want to click.
Holy shit I preach this. Like I’m just sitting here trying to download a dum video to share on my friend’s server and random redirects keep screwing me over. Luckily for me I’m using an application that doesn’t auto switch tabs to redirects when I wanna download something.
i know this so well. everyday i use a free pirate site that streams literally every sport event for free and theres often many different streams in different languages (it even streams in ultra HD 60fps lmao). But this click trap is such a common thing (not on this site, but on these streams) that I got so used to them I close the windows that pop up in 0.1s. and btw, this is still WITH AN ADBLOCKER, without an adblocker theres like 5 pop ups every time. and yeah, click traps leading to pron websites are such a common thing that I dont bother to delete them off my browser history, its just pointless. best way is to be prepared to press ctrl+w, it closes the opened page. this shortcut makes life so much easier.
yup, basically always a hack attempt too Thing is the website earns money for using it, despite the purpose being to harm users with malware or adware Should be illegal, we already declare malicious hacking as illegal, spreading it as means of PROFITING from it should also be illegal
They are actually starting to work on getting laws passed about advertising on the internet in all sorts of different countries around the world that will hopefully start to spread around the whole world and then they'll make more and more refined restrictions
Maybe if 90% of ads weren't riddled with viruses, hyper sexual, creepy, non-intrusive or irrelevant, people would lower their shields. Maybe instead of punishing the consumer with more ads they should raise the price for advertisers to get more money.
this is the outcome of capitalism, isnt it great? we've made real progress thanks to the competitive market. bad thing dont actually become popular cause people can vote with the wallet! amirite?
It's irrelevant when you turn off personalized ads. If you turn it on, you're just giving the companies your data. Also for me in the EU, the cookies are so annoying.
That used to be a problem. At this stage this doesnt matter anymore. The quanitity is so rediculous, it doesnt matter what the ads are. But theres so many, its basically assult.
They won’t be increased in price unless it is more profitable-which clearly it isn’t. The only way it can rectified is through increased tax rates on advertisements and/or introducing restrictions on the amount of ads that these sites can display to users in a given time frame (or something to that effect), but good luck regulating the internet. 🥲
I have erased ads completely at home. If away from home, I open a browser, search something, and it's actually just gross. It gives me the same dirty feeling that casinos give me. Like, wtf happened to the internet over the last decade 😔
I was totally against using an ad-blocker. Then one day, I was forced to watch a 20 seconds unskippable ad for a 6 second clip. It was my breaking point.
I’m so glad someone else has said this. It’s very disturbing. I had two un-skippable ads for like a 15 second clip and just clicked off the video at that point. Makes me wonder how many thousands of views videos like that miss out on.
I dont get those who are against ad blockers. Ads are an intrusion, and should not be there at all. The only right thing to do is use an adblocker all the time. Those sites that request you remove it do not deserve any attention, they are massive pieces of shit. Using adblocker is an obligation and a responsibility. It's like helping starving children, it's the right thing to do.
i never was against adblockers. but when ads were just in the corner or bottom banner it didn't bother me. but then it turned into this shit show and i went NAH
Why don't marketers realize bombarding us with ads like this actually has the opposite affect, it actively turns me off to whatever is being advertised. Meaning if I see it advertised and thrown in my face, I'll go out of my way to avoid your product in the future, cause I'm going to associate that product with the inconvenience caused by all your ads.
What doesn’t help is that almost every ad i’ve seen is structured the same way with sweeping slow mo shots if the product and appropriate generic music to accompany it. It all feels the same which makes at least me think i’ve seen the same ad about 80 million times a day
Google has made companies into thinking whenever someone clicks on the ad, be it due to interest or accident (which is more often the case) it is because they'll make a purchase, so ad companies think, oh this many ppl saw our ad and were interested, we should double down on it
@@A1stardan They also have conversion rates for ads on Google. Used them myself for my online company. I realized these ads weren't converting sales from the ads, but were getting my brand recognition out there, and I had some sales from referals from other customers.
I remember that my ad block stopped working on UA-cam for like 2 weeks or so (at least mostly, a lot of ads came through) and I forgot how annoying ads on UA-cam can actually be. Like I just wanted to send a friend a 20 seconds meme and wanted to check if this is actually the right video, just to watch 30 seconds unskipable ads before that. I WATCHED ADS LONGER THAN THE ACTUAL VIDEO.
Yeah my adblock stopped working for like a month, Luckly I have never bought youtube Premium so while UA-cam was fighting Adblockers and restricting videos, I was using the free months trial and cancelled the renewal immediatly xD
the ads are also always loaded in the highest quality too while if left on auto your video will look like shit. they use all your data to load the ad and the video is a second thought. it should be illegal. you pay for your own internet, the ads should be paying YOU to play on YOUR internet connection.
@@fire_drake12.arc.24humanity is doomed for they have accepted such mountains of bullshit without real complaint or consequence and the corps will never give an inch back
@@blazechaos212you don't buy a car from Toyota because of the ads you see online. You buy Toyota because it is a reputable car business and you almost definitely know a dozen people who drive them. Real advertising does not come from ads, it comes from word of mouth. Nobody says "oh yea I saw a cool Honda ad that said they are good cars!" They say "my dad has had the same Honda civic since 1990, and he's never even had to change the oil!! I'm gonna get a Honda too!" Make a good product, and people will sell it for you by simply talking about it. Producing ads only makes people hate your product.
They are annoying, but that’s why the companies collect our data, so the algorithm can personally target you for ads you’re most likely to be interested in. Most of the time I get ads about things I’m interested in, which is even more annoying because I can’t even surf the web without robots trying to get me to buy shit
@@Naev0w0 Again, nobody hates Toyota cars because of the ads. The ads do mind-conditioning so that it becomes the first thing you think of when you think of a car brand. It won't always work, though.
@@understanding77 set it to not targeted ads and you'll get those disgusting fake mobile games ads instead. At least you'll be sure to not spend anything.
I usually run into ads if browsing with my phone. Not only does it make me hate and avoid sites that are pushing them, it makes me hate and avoid the brands that are running them too.
If Ads wouldn't be as intrusive and aggravating a lot more people wouldn't have a problem with them and wouldn't bother with Ad block. As someone who worked in this industry for over 20 years it still surprises me how tone deaf and out of touch major marketing and commercial companies are. And this has nothing to do with "we're just trying to make money" or some other BS
If I see an ad, that company is DEAD to me. If their product was anything but a garbage scam, they wouldn't need to advertise. THAT SIMPLE. Adblockers literally save them, now they just need to stop giving all that money to google etc for the advertising that BEST CASE SCENARIO nobody sees
Would also be great if they didn't host the literal viruses as ads on their sites as well. They should also be accountable whenever someone falls for it because I'm sure your average person not used to the nuisances of the Internet might think it's real then now all of their data is stolen because a greedy website seems to NEED to host viruses on their sites for ad revenue
@@Muffin_MasherThat seems kinda like silly logic to me. There's nothing wrong with ads, and a product doesn't become shit for having an ad. The problem is the sheer volume of ads that get blasted at you at every possible chance, as well as the fact that all of those sketchy malware ads are even allowed to exist.
Nothing like a sudden jarring burst of computer generated electronica at level saturation twice as loud as the video you intended to watch trying to sell me something I would never have any intention of buying. Ad-blocker forever.
In Maine, when the sh00ting happened, we were all looking up information about the sh00ter / what was currently happening. On the news site it was mostly playing on, we had to watch 2 minute ads before we could get our information, and we missed very important information about the killer, victims, and locations. Needless to say we learned FROM TWITTER that the sh00tings were 10 minutes away from us and the name of the suspect. I think that's actually criminal that News sites in particular have video ads that cover the important content. That's insane Edit: Yes, I know I censored words. UA-cam deleted my comment before. Not anything deep.
It's equally ridiculous that you can't say the words you want to say on UA-cam. Tired of seeing and being confused by people talking about 'unalived' and 'sh00ter' and 'raysism'... Like for real? What are we 9?
@@chadhindsley5431 Because UA-cam would hide my comment. Certain words like sh00ter and such can put comments under review. It's unfortunate but that's why I typed it like that. I don't rly care about censoring, there's no deep hidden meaning behind it lol Edit: I also I apologize if I misunderstood the tone of your message, I am autistic so it's hard for me to understand.
yeah, like with bad connection you try to watch and the only thing that doesn't stop every 8 seconds is the ads which play in their entirety and good quality
Cyberpunk 2077 references this, actually. If you notice, you can't walk around night city for more than a couple seconds without seeing some banner/ad on a billboard/building/bus stop. And if you ever turn on your television in the game, there aren't any shows or movies at all, it's literally just nonstop ads over and over again.
people like to think that cyberpunk is purely a fictional thing with how it presents itself, but i just went to vegas for the first time only earlier this week and i couldn't belive how accurate the game was when depicting ads absolutely EVERYWHERE. If anything Cyberpunk doesnt NEARLY live up to how many ads there could be in a city like vegas. I think people often miss the point that the game is very much an exaggerated take on the world we live in.
@@user-up1id5rv2m the thing though is even if i see things i want, i never buy it immediately, i always wait a few weeks or a couple months and most things i wanted i realize eh i didnt really want it that much. its a useful trick!
Ya and people say you will subconsciously buy the products advertised over others. No, most people just buy the cheapest product as long as it’s not garbage 😂
Agreed UA-cam is a prime example when i watch on my laptop or desktop its great but when i watch on my tv its 2-3 ads every 5mins it makes videos unwatchable.
It is fucking ludicrous that there are actually people who try to design systems to counter ad blockers. They must be some of the most grating of corporate goons to interact with.
This is the new tactic of advertisers: show a boatload of ads and cause so much outrage among viewers, that popular youtubers start documenting their experience and upload them to youtube, where, again, the ad is boosted among subscribers. You've literally assisted them in getting that ad out there.
My absolute most detested ad style is when there is an invisible ad covering the entire web page, so if you accidentally click instead of scroll you get redirected to a virus site.
And then you have to tab back in, click on it again, open a second virus tab and *then* it goes away on the main page.. but only for 5 seconds. And you have to keep those tabs open or else it'll come back instantly. It's repulsive.
Or the ads in mobile games where you have to wait 30s to click the X and when you do, you have to wait another 10s looking at a picture version of the ad before you can press the X again.
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
I had a similar experience. My grandpa told me to search up this 60 min episode and I went to their website. They played 4 ads in a row, five seconds of the episode then more ads.
@@mcleafybranch3914 It was some 2022 advisory about "Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users" One of the listed points: "Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others. "
@mcleafybranch3914 Yes. They made a PSA about online criminals using ads to steal personal information and spread malware, and once of the recommendations on how to protect yourself was to use ad-blocking software. If you want to read the original, go to IC3 (internet crime compaint center) website, public service announcements, year 2022, it's the first one on the list (Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users)
IGN is quite literally the worst example of this cause sometimes I will open chrome on my phone and see an article about something that I was interested about earlier. So I’ll tap on it, and I can’t even read the article because the ads are constantly blocking the article and then making the thing I’m trying to read freak tf out because the article is bouncing up and down trying to load MORE ads.
I was literally in tears hearing Charlie say something as exaggerated as 30 second ads every 2-3 seconds, and then watching a clip with the main dude not even getting a full sentence out between ads.
I went through this a few years ago and if a site doesn't want me to use ad block for a news story I look elsewhere for it. I got so heated about it I was swearing at my phone near my mom and I never curse in front of her. She told me to calm down but it was infuriating getting these incredibly long ads for no information. What am I getting out of this situation besides high blood pressure and closer to a fucking stroke? Never again
I also love how UA-cam has the gall to play ads twice as long as the video you're trying to watch. Heck, it's not even unusual to get 20 second ads for a 5 second video. It's absolute insanity.
And some of the time you can’t even skip them because they fit 12 seconds in the span of two 6 second ads, with one of them in Spanish so you can’t even understand it. Or you hit the jackpot and both of them are.
It's so funny because Xv*deos have LESS ads than YT. They are literally 5 second long or 30 seconds long with a skip button. There is ONE ad too. This is insanity.
I thought it was common knowledge at this point, but apparently it's not. Most ads don't intend to make you buy something immediately, but rather they try to nudge you towards buying a product of a specific brand. For example, there is toothpaste A and toothpaste B. If you saw ads for toothpaste A and didn't see any for B, there is a higher chance for you to choose option A. Also ads rely a lot on large scale. An ad won't work for every single person, but if it works for, say, 5% of people who saw it, it's probably good enough for the company
One example: I bought some native body wash on my Walmart app, and now I am bombarded with ads for that brand. I will now never purchase that brand again
@@MrsDragonChefthat has nothing to do with that brand though, That's just Google AdSense using your purchase history / cookies to Target specifically tailored ads towards you
We just had a friend get hit in a drunk driving accident and die. While trying to watch the news report for it on the city's news site, we were interrupted in the same way by a McDonald's ad and a House buying ad. Absolutely disgusting.
my step brother died in a tornado and the video itself is already about 2-3 minutes long but so are the ads, to the point where i just screen record the video to watch it
Fun fact, those two jump scares are likely attempts to load more ads, but there were none at the moment to show or it was linked to a dead ad they didn't remove from the cycle. They wanted you to see two more ads there, I promise.
Interesting fact, if you run your own router, you can put a firewall addition in place that blocks certain links, which CAN BE the links to ads. I personally use Firewalla and I love it to death. I refuse to run a router of my own without Firewalla ever again
@@davedave3520 ads are allowed to exist because that's how new businesses are able to propagate themselves easier. However, the internet is a depressing junkyard of ads.
A few weeks ago I had to read about some news and I went to some big reputable news site (forgot which) and I tried to read, but was on phone without adblock - banner ad left, banner ad right, banner ad below, banner ad above, and an autoplaying video ad that took up half of the space that was left to read, I had a total of about 5% of the screen left to read, I could literally see 10 words at a time and still had to scroll to the right to see the rest
I did a survey for college not long ago and it reached almost 10k people in my country. A suprising amount of people, mainly young people, are absolutely OK with ads existing. The issue is how invasive they are. As in, they wouldn't mind an ad or two at the beginning of a video, but would hate one during a video, not to mention a song... Also there is an interesting psychological effect of those 5sec ads. People just resent them more regardless of them being as long as your wait time to skip it. And an unskippable ad is for most people the biggest offense, since it downright takes your freedom to skip the ad away and in a semi passive-aggressive way tells you to shut up and watch it.
It's not that they don't mind the ads, it's that they are much easier to avoid if they're at the beginning of the video. Then you don't mind them because you can just go do whatever until the ad is done.
normally i dont care. like if there are 6 in one youtube video i just skip it and move on. however, the bane of my existence is all those fkn ads on recipe blogs. they are so outrageous and invasive and always just hit you at the worst time when you are making something. so i try to hit the print recipe button as soon as possible because it makes trying new recipes such a nightmare and a headache
People were fine with ads on the side of web pages and even would be fine with small video ads in say the top corner of a youtube video similar to how they do with NFL broadcast etc when they split the screen. Like you said the CHOICE is what matters humans when given no choice but to watch will naturally resent and rebel, if you just put the ad in the corner of the video subconsciously people believe they can CHOOSE to just not look which means they are fine with it. The same way the skip button makes most people ok with pre video ads simply making them less invasive fixes the problem and tricks people into thinking they have free will even though they are still consuming it. The problem is greed means websites take a lot of money to make ads unskipable or invasive af, they don't care about their users all they care about is money which is why I hope the ad block war continues indefinitely.
Thats the whole reason I started using one back in like 2008, I don't mind ads, but when they become malicious and interrupt what I'm trying to do, thats when it becomes an issue, I've used ad block since then and dont ever plan on not using it. As soon as any site tells me to turn it off I just go to a different site if theres no workaround
uBlock Origin's element picker is also your friend! Helps zap all the little popups and other ad elements that bleed through during UI updates. Don't have to deal with threatening messages from youtube or "select cookie" walls. Zap⚡
Stuff like tornado warnings, someone shooting in your area "HEY TRY THIS VHVJCHH DJ CJ" out loud, so loud the k**ler could hear... re: Oh so sorry... UNALIVER.
I’d reccomend Ad Nauseum! It’s based on UBlock but it also clicks every ad it sees distorting the ad tracking so the ad information on you being sold is essentially useless.
I was trying to watch local news on its website while we were in a tornado warning so i could keep updated. I got a 60 second ad every time i clicked on the live feed or if i needed to refresh. Its not just dystopian. We are in the dystopia.
I honestly am so sick of pop up ads or trying to load a page and reading something and it disappears like half a page down and having to scroll down to find it
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
-Ad spam as seen in the video -Giant popups when scrolling a bit -Blasting ads on full volume -Personalized/indecent ads -Invisible site redirects, covering the entire page -Nearly unclickable/fake X buttons -Chains of site redirects, making it difficult to go back to the previous page -Fake download banners -Dark patterns for everything -Mobile pages even less usable -API requests (like the popup at 7:17) -Anti Adblock -VPN block -Data collection everywhere you go And just so much more, to the point that all of this just seems natural nowadays. This intrusion is just getting more and more advanced, while actual laws protecting Internet users remain ever so barely noticeable. If not for adblocks and some browsers actually caring for your web experience, the Internet would be an utter hellscape for you and your device.
I used to play a dumb phone game, and the X on ads were nearly always fake X marks on the wrong side, but some ads had it on that side, and I just ended up learning which ones had them flipped and to sometimes wait because sometimes you had to wait 10-30 seconds to click the X
Oh. That's illegal actually By EU law, you're always allowed to refuse cookies. And I absolutely hate when they do it anyway, and those who just make it extra hard to refuse them. By making you manually refuse EVERY SINGLE One of their 1000's of cookies and cookie watchers Legit, I've had to turn off the same 200 cookies for 300 different companies, manually. On one singular website
@@annameyldamn I didn't know that. Well technically you can refuse cookies... if you pay a monthly fee that costs between 1-12€. Some make it really hard to figure out how to decline cookies and they'll ruin your experience with the biggest pop-ups they could think of, but most of them just won't allow you to access to any of their content.
I agree with the whole "unusable without ad block thing" since ads are becoming more unbearable, but the thing is NSFW ads are actually being allowed on some platforms. I was at home watching UA-cam on the TV with my dad about a week ago (UA-cam on TV is unbearable without an adblock but I have to deal with it) but the thing is we got an ad, which was just utterly stupid. It was skippable, but it started off with the first five seconds being a guy looking to someone off camera and saying: "Dude, I am so f**king horny" and then we skipped the ad before it continued on any longer. After that both me and my dad just looked at each other in surprise and laughed about it for the next 15 minutes or so. If any UA-camr who wasn't one of UA-cam's favourite money makers said that, they'd have their video demonetized, but if an ad does it, it's completely fine. Worst part is that we aren't signed in to a UA-cam account on the TV and were watching only gameplay stuff, so that was just a run of the mill ad and not a targeted one, which makes me incredibly worried about the possibility of that kind of ad popping up in a video being watched by a child. A slight update on the situation: I saw a mobile game ad recently. Now again I must clarify that, I don't search anything NSFW on UA-cam meaning it was once again not a targeted ad. Now this was with UA-cam on my phone this time (I have every kind of precaution for adblocking on my laptops but not on my phone). It was for a game where they literally blurred the chest of one of the female characters in the ad because of a total lack of clothing. I am glad it was censored, but my god UA-cam what are you doing?! Children use this platform!
I mean, Google ads use your search history to target ads. There’s two choices: either you have porn in your search history, or you have zero history and they’re letting ALL ads go to you as a result.
@@sovietunion8304 You paid enough for 3 entire phones to have a phone that brags about features invented half a decade ago, you already shot yourself in the foot. (Though iOS looks better in my book)
My ‘favorite’ idiotic ads on YT are the ones you can skip after 5 seconds that *don’t identify what they selling* It’s only 5 seconds, but if they don’t identify the product being sold ( _if it’s on YT, it’s a garbage product anyway_ ) in the first 5 seconds- all the more annoying because of the utter futility.
Even UA-cam is unbearable now... We started with banner ads which was okay. Then we had one ad roll that can be skipped in 5 seconds, then 2 ads that skippable, then 5 ads that is skippable, and now we started to have 2-3, minute long unskippable ads in every video.
I was at a funeral for a man who passed in his 90s. After long and emotional peaches from his family they went to play his favourite song (an old Irish song) and an unslippable ad for tiktok played. It was the most surreal and uncomfortable thing.
I recently used the free version of spotify for a couple weeks while I was switching my Premium accounts and I was floored by how atrociusly invasive the ads have gotten. I couldn't even get through 4 songs without 2 long unskippable ads playing, and every time it promised "30 minites of ad-free listening" it would never actually deliver that. Truly dystopian feeling.
Noticed UA-cam recently started adding a new feature involving the "1 of 2 adds" where instead of skipping both in one step, you have to skip both separately. Worse when both are 15 seconds and unskippable. They're appearing more often as well.
Why do people need to watch 15 seconds of stupid nothingness it's like the 6 sec ones are my preferred to watch if I have to I don't care about oh the general give you a break when you need one. Ads. I need a break from that too stop showing ads seriously
I’ve downloaded Adblock for all of my parents devices and the amount of help they ask for dramatically dropped. Most ads aren’t just annoying they genuinely malicious and will try to trick less tech informed people. Not to mention the strangely pervy mobile game ads or if you are on an illegal anime site it’s straight up adult content
It seems like sites with less-than-legal purposes (not talking black market organ deals, I'm talking like pirating music or something) always have the scummiest ads. Like they can't get car or insurance or fast food companies to buy the ad space, they can only get malicious hosts. Mostly fake downloads and skeevy porn site links.
@@Cosmik60yeah because they take your data bro which is how personalized ads work which is why if your on for example a porn site it will say for example... "hot singles in new york want to fuck now!" is caused by them taking data which can tell them your location
@@LexisVoyage that's just straight bullshit but whatever... Whenever you go on any website there's certain informations that's getting exchanged. One of it is your IP address. Which contains a *rough* estimate on your location since every ISP has a certain range of IP addresses. That's how these ads know your location, but they don't know for sure. My ISP for example is a bunch of cities away from me, so any ad just thinks I'm from there. There is no personally identifying information in your IP address and if you don't want them to know where you're from just use a VPN
Exactly. Even if by some grace of the algorithm there is no pre-roll ad before your video - if its a major UA-camr (or a more well known one) there is basically guaranteed to be some sort of sponsored content somewhere in the video forcing me to skip ahead PS: Firefox has an Add-on called SponsorBlock that automatically skips over these sponsored parts and shows where they are on the progress bar. It's honestly shocking how much of some videos are sponsored content.
Another ad nightmare is fandom wiki's, especially on the smartphone when you try to look up a guide for a quests or something you only see about 1/3 of the actual screen
Once a website says "Turn off your ad blocker" I immediately leave and forget about whatever I wanted to read.
It's just not worth it.
I do the exact same thing. fuck them, I'm not turning it off.
@@Votexforxmei mean adblocks prevent me from seeing ads. thats all I want🤷🏾♂️
These sites are usually trash anyways
@Votexforxme Disabling Javascript breaks most modern sites. Might work for some tho.
@@VotexforxmeGuess everyone who's ever used a sink should know everything about plumbing and everyone who's ever stepped into a building should know everything about architecture then.
"stop blocking ads"
Stop fucking pummeling me with them maybe.
I love brave, I don't need my phone burned out from ad spams
They got rid of the comments box so people can't call the news on their own bullshit long ago!
@@user-lv4ek9lk4l (stop fucking replying to me its bombarding my notifs and i dont want to read your shit, use it, You do you.) brave was created by someone who believes anti-vax theories (and is homophobic), not telling you to stop using it but just putting that out there
based
@@aviter0 would rather have that then getting rammed in the face with 30 ads a second
The average youtube experience:
Click Title -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> thirty second intro -> one minute sponsor spot -> 15 seconds unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> three minutes -> ad interrupts mid sentence -> four more minutes -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> video's conclusion -> click away or pause video before it ends to avoid more ads.
I have almost gotten heart attack when my revanced was not working. Then i updated it. It's impossible to experience anything in internet without adblock.
For a short time recently, UA-cam tried to be sneaky by allowing you to "skip" ads but in actuality you'd tap the next button which immediately started another ad. I'd imagine people were rightfully pissed off so they removed it.
It's a hellhole off of mobile devices. Whenever I decide to watch stuff on my TV, the ads have a countdown timer. First timer is how long until you can finally skip the damn ads, second timer is how long the ad break is. I remember getting one ad break with a 99+ minute runtime. The moment I saw that, I muttered "you can suck my cock and balls, UA-cam"
Revanced, Pi-hole and Ublock are legit the 2024 internet starterpack.
Sponsorblock:
I honestly dont know what you guys are talking about... On sketchy sites - yes, unwatchable, but on youtube (if you are logged in) its actually like 1 or 2 ads for 20 min video, never been worse
I disabled ads because after my mom died from cancer all I got were ads related to cancer and it was so triggering.
That's so heart breaking
Lmao
Thats so fucked
Targeted ads are evil
Wow, sorry. That's really effed up.
The more I watch an ad, the more I want to avoid the product being advertised. Just me?
Unless it's a cool ad which only happens once in a trillion ads
This is why I will never use Hello fresh or fucking rocket money.
nope ... ads have also negative impact on my mind🤣
@@BandidFourLife if you dont use ad blockers then that trillion ads happen a day
Examples, UA-cam and Spotify premium ads
All it makes me want to do is go to their hq and ask them to knock it off with the ads that are like 5 in a row
On our tv, youtube will haave an ad that says it's skippable in 5 seconds and when you hit skip, it starts a 30 second unskippable ad like a punishment.
oh my god so it's not just me
I haven't had that but on my TV when watching videos over an hour long I'll get like 6 unskippable ads and a pop up saying "less ad breaks for this long video" meanwhile it's the same amount of ad breaks just with more ads each.
Yeah ever since the latest update smh
Happens on my pc.
(Well not my pc because adblock, but my phone doesn’t have one so it’s the same)
What I find funny is that since UA-cam banned Adblockers, the people behind the extension/browser/etc have to constantly refine and reprogram whatever they were running to avoid being detected by UA-cam.
So all in all, UA-cam just made Adblocking extensions, browsers and so on even better than before. And they broadcasted to everyone - who didn't know Adblockers were a thing - that Adblock exists.
That last part is what’s called the Streisand effect
Yeah, you can see ads show up for like a fraction of a second before being immediately terminated now. I like watching youtube and the adblocker fighting for control
another trick is to use essentially abandon ware, samsung internet is so forgotten that they don't update the computer version of youtube but that also means the same ad blocker has worked for years
@@PrestonLK It's not Streisand effect. Adblocks are already widely known. This is just an arms race effect. Like how in times of war humanity makes significant leaps in technology development.
@@mranderson9553Until UA-cam ends support for your abandonware and blocks access to the old versions of the site. Just the other day I had to explain to my mother that she won't be able to watch UA-cam through the app on her old iPad anymore. Granted I did find a workaround and she's now able to use the youtube app on the old ipad but even that workaround is eventually going to stop working.
I remember ads used to be just images and animated gifs placed around the website. Now it's super intrusive and some can even be malware that open you up to nastier things.
That's you looking through rose tinted glasses. 20 years ago there were flash player adds, autoplaying videos, full screen pop-ups, redirect loops or even videos that followed the cursor. Ads got better for some time when google consolidated the market. Now it's going to shit again.
@@seethisth4753 It all became bad when web allowed scripting.
@@seethisth4753 Sure if you went to the worst kinds of websites. The more popular ones that people actually used, weren't like what you are saying.
I _never_ turn off my adblock and exit any site that asks me to do it. Any site that asks me to turn off my adblock as a condition for viewing is not worth my time.
exactly
That's one hell of a power move my friend. Respect.
**laughs in ublock origin**
@@ultimaweapon991💀
Doesn’t UA-cam force you to turn off adblock
I would like to also mention that I've noticed that mobile ads are now designed where you have to tap the X button 2-3 consecutive times. But the X button has also been scaled to the smallest size possible so you can fat finger into opening the ad. It is super annoying and feels like it should be illegal.
Thats been a thing for a long time. Or some ads dont let you close them for a few seconds AND have the smallest X ever.
or the fake X button that just takes you to a unholy purgatory of more ads
that and the yt short ads, I don't think I have to explain my self@@bonfire9630
@@bogwife7942 Yeah true. Free Apps from the Store also have stupid amount of ads PLUS p2w 🤣
I've had success with using a dns black hole on my local network, so my phone sees much less ads. It helps with everything else on ths network too. And my phone doesn't have to do any extra work.
I think the pinnacle of this is when my college professors try to hold a lecture using a youtube video and are forced to show students 60 seconds of unskippable casino ads before playing a 30 second demonstration video.
Why didn't he use a ad blocker
@@something-hs1ui i stopped using ad block because it was slowing youtube down for me
Suggest them to use a youtube downloader to keep the videos in their computer forever.
@@jayc342009 try to use your brain and install proper adblocker. It's ublock origin
Use uBlock there is a video in youtube which settings should you use with uBlock and works fine in youtube
Having used adblockers since like 2006 seeing the internet without it is disgusting. Have you ever seen what Facebook looks like without adblock? Or youtube? It's horrific.
why u use facebook tho
@@nilsmeyer7278 Family mainly. And marketplace.
i started using adblocks when i started to work in 2019 because they started to annoy me at the time and i just turned ublock off one time on few websites and got obliterrated by ads. i wasnt able to read news or click on sites because ADS
i started using adblocks when i started to work in 2019 because they started to annoy me at the time and i just turned ublock off one time on few websites and got obliterrated by ads. i wasnt able to read news or click on sites because ADS
"turn off your adblock" yeah, sure! (closes the tab)
ublock origin's "block element" (mostly works)
@@grandstarstudiosYT you can actually get a Ublock script that kills all anti-adblocking elements before they interrupt your browsing
Same
Use Ubolck Origin with all the filters on it will block that popoup too
@@grandstarstudiosYT🙏
The people who develop Ublock Origin aren't the heroes we deserve, but they sure as fuck are the heroes we need.
there's a website that tells you whether or not ublock is currently working on youtube. "dr hyperion" i think it's called. i made it my homepage
USE , U BLOCK ORIGIN. Plz it will save u
Ublock Origin*
Save the soul society Ublock Origin
huh@@anomymous1286
You turn off the ad blocker to read a news story and after seeing 10 minutes of ads you realize that the news story was a disguised ad all along.
Nothing is worth turning off the ad-block.
That scene from "Ready Player One" where they say "we can sell 80% of the user's screen space before inducins seizures" comes to mind. It was the warning of a dystopia, not a challenge! I have been working with Bing Ads for a year (time limited contract) and looked at a few of those news pages that use extensive ads. If there's a cookie banner without the option for "I don't consent", that page would disappear from Bing EU (for violating EU laws). If there's a page with a popup ad, that violates TOS and the page gets removed. If more than 25% of the landing page is ads (it's scary how often that's the case), that website gets removed. I know that Google has a similar process. Those people are critically underpaid (minimum wage only) but it needs to be done.
thank god that parzival and his friends collected all the keys instead of ioi even though it was close
dystopian writers: *write something evil
companies and government: that's a good idea!
I had no idea there's activity like that. I am unfortunately beyone help, just so used ot ad blockers I would just use internet a LOT less if I couldn't block like 99% of the ads. I already don't use mobile for content consumption for the same reason.
Imagine you're dying and in the last moments of your life you look up what to do just to be greeted by a Manscaped ad.
Bro bought his account
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 😈
not the roblox limited site commenting
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
man is saying the truth
My most hated ad mechanic is what i call a Click Trap. Its an invisible layer placed all over the screen, wherever you click, it auto opens a random shady website. Some times it takes several attempts to actually click what you want to click.
Holy shit I preach this. Like I’m just sitting here trying to download a dum video to share on my friend’s server and random redirects keep screwing me over. Luckily for me I’m using an application that doesn’t auto switch tabs to redirects when I wanna download something.
Encounter this too many times
i know this so well. everyday i use a free pirate site that streams literally every sport event for free and theres often many different streams in different languages (it even streams in ultra HD 60fps lmao). But this click trap is such a common thing (not on this site, but on these streams) that I got so used to them I close the windows that pop up in 0.1s.
and btw, this is still WITH AN ADBLOCKER, without an adblocker theres like 5 pop ups every time.
and yeah, click traps leading to pron websites are such a common thing that I dont bother to delete them off my browser history, its just pointless.
best way is to be prepared to press ctrl+w, it closes the opened page. this shortcut makes life so much easier.
yup, basically always a hack attempt too
Thing is the website earns money for using it, despite the purpose being to harm users with malware or adware
Should be illegal, we already declare malicious hacking as illegal, spreading it as means of PROFITING from it should also be illegal
Only porn sites have those
I will never turn off my adblocker for any site ever.
Agreed, and I'll also never finish reading an article that has more than 1 page...
The real "theres a bit of video in your ads"
I'm shocked that there hasn't been an official, legally mandated ruleset for advertising on a website. Holy shit. This is getting out of hand.
lobbying probably
They are actually starting to work on getting laws passed about advertising on the internet in all sorts of different countries around the world that will hopefully start to spread around the whole world and then they'll make more and more refined restrictions
@@iand255could that also mean targeted ads to a whole different level
Have you seen how old, incompetent, out of touch and corrupt our governments are lately? Why are you surprised?? Smh
I was just thinking this and they make the damn X button impossible to press and/or see
Maybe if 90% of ads weren't riddled with viruses, hyper sexual, creepy, non-intrusive or irrelevant, people would lower their shields. Maybe instead of punishing the consumer with more ads they should raise the price for advertisers to get more money.
this is the outcome of capitalism, isnt it great? we've made real progress thanks to the competitive market. bad thing dont actually become popular cause people can vote with the wallet! amirite?
It's irrelevant when you turn off personalized ads. If you turn it on, you're just giving the companies your data. Also for me in the EU, the cookies are so annoying.
That used to be a problem.
At this stage this doesnt matter anymore.
The quanitity is so rediculous, it doesnt matter what the ads are. But theres so many, its basically assult.
They won’t be increased in price unless it is more profitable-which clearly it isn’t. The only way it can rectified is through increased tax rates on advertisements and/or introducing restrictions on the amount of ads that these sites can display to users in a given time frame (or something to that effect), but good luck regulating the internet. 🥲
@Cara.314 no its not great its disgusting how google and the Internet in general treats their consumers
"Turn of your adblo.."
Leaves without elaborate any further
Your pfp perfectly represents that last line
🗿🗿🗿
I have erased ads completely at home. If away from home, I open a browser, search something, and it's actually just gross. It gives me the same dirty feeling that casinos give me. Like, wtf happened to the internet over the last decade 😔
youtube fucked up when they started playing 10 midrole ads every video. They've pushed me to adblock when I used to have premium before.
Facts bro
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 👿
Ads should not exist period.
Penguinz0 inspires me... My parents said if I get 10k subscribers , they’d buy me a professional camera for recording... literally begging you guys...
they only play like 2 at most now and they always skippable honestly youtube dialed back imo
I was totally against using an ad-blocker. Then one day, I was forced to watch a 20 seconds unskippable ad for a 6 second clip. It was my breaking point.
*Tries to watch memes*
Ads: Ha. No.
I’m so glad someone else has said this. It’s very disturbing. I had two un-skippable ads for like a 15 second clip and just clicked off the video at that point. Makes me wonder how many thousands of views videos like that miss out on.
I dont get those who are against ad blockers. Ads are an intrusion, and should not be there at all. The only right thing to do is use an adblocker all the time. Those sites that request you remove it do not deserve any attention, they are massive pieces of shit. Using adblocker is an obligation and a responsibility. It's like helping starving children, it's the right thing to do.
i never was against adblockers. but when ads were just in the corner or bottom banner it didn't bother me. but then it turned into this shit show and i went NAH
This is the cannon event of every internet surfer
Why don't marketers realize bombarding us with ads like this actually has the opposite affect, it actively turns me off to whatever is being advertised. Meaning if I see it advertised and thrown in my face, I'll go out of my way to avoid your product in the future, cause I'm going to associate that product with the inconvenience caused by all your ads.
facts
What doesn’t help is that almost every ad i’ve seen is structured the same way with sweeping slow mo shots if the product and appropriate generic music to accompany it. It all feels the same which makes at least me think i’ve seen the same ad about 80 million times a day
that's what maybe 5 or 10% of people will do ... but the other 90% wont and that's why they keep doing it. It really works ...
Google has made companies into thinking whenever someone clicks on the ad, be it due to interest or accident (which is more often the case) it is because they'll make a purchase, so ad companies think, oh this many ppl saw our ad and were interested, we should double down on it
@@A1stardan They also have conversion rates for ads on Google. Used them myself for my online company. I realized these ads weren't converting sales from the ads, but were getting my brand recognition out there, and I had some sales from referals from other customers.
I remember that my ad block stopped working on UA-cam for like 2 weeks or so (at least mostly, a lot of ads came through) and I forgot how annoying ads on UA-cam can actually be.
Like I just wanted to send a friend a 20 seconds meme and wanted to check if this is actually the right video, just to watch 30 seconds unskipable ads before that.
I WATCHED ADS LONGER THAN THE ACTUAL VIDEO.
Yeah my adblock stopped working for like a month, Luckly I have never bought youtube Premium so while UA-cam was fighting Adblockers and restricting videos, I was using the free months trial and cancelled the renewal immediatly xD
It’s even more annoying when you have bad internet and when you think the video has finally loaded, it’s 2 30 second unskippable ads
Ads should not exist period.
Yeah! I have 500 mb per month and if something serious happens like a person dying I bet I would watch a 30 sec ad and then my internet will run out 😖
@deilancelam dude, if you look up anything you've run out of data. Get a better plan
the ads are also always loaded in the highest quality too while if left on auto your video will look like shit. they use all your data to load the ad and the video is a second thought. it should be illegal. you pay for your own internet, the ads should be paying YOU to play on YOUR internet connection.
@@fire_drake12.arc.24humanity is doomed for they have accepted such mountains of bullshit without real complaint or consequence and the corps will never give an inch back
I don’t understand how ads are even effective, ads are the most annoying thing ever and they only make people hate the company and ad more.
People hate Toyota? I doubt it.
@@blazechaos212you don't buy a car from Toyota because of the ads you see online. You buy Toyota because it is a reputable car business and you almost definitely know a dozen people who drive them.
Real advertising does not come from ads, it comes from word of mouth. Nobody says "oh yea I saw a cool Honda ad that said they are good cars!" They say "my dad has had the same Honda civic since 1990, and he's never even had to change the oil!! I'm gonna get a Honda too!"
Make a good product, and people will sell it for you by simply talking about it. Producing ads only makes people hate your product.
They are annoying, but that’s why the companies collect our data, so the algorithm can personally target you for ads you’re most likely to be interested in. Most of the time I get ads about things I’m interested in, which is even more annoying because I can’t even surf the web without robots trying to get me to buy shit
@@Naev0w0 Again, nobody hates Toyota cars because of the ads. The ads do mind-conditioning so that it becomes the first thing you think of when you think of a car brand. It won't always work, though.
@@understanding77 set it to not targeted ads and you'll get those disgusting fake mobile games ads instead. At least you'll be sure to not spend anything.
I usually run into ads if browsing with my phone. Not only does it make me hate and avoid sites that are pushing them, it makes me hate and avoid the brands that are running them too.
I've got the Brave browser on my phone, allows me to surf UA-cam without any ads.
Honestly I had to get Firefox on my phone too just for the AdBlock extensions
I also love the fact that Google and UA-cam are trying to fight against adblockers which is basicly saying "welcome malware"
If Ads wouldn't be as intrusive and aggravating a lot more people wouldn't have a problem with them and wouldn't bother with Ad block. As someone who worked in this industry for over 20 years it still surprises me how tone deaf and out of touch major marketing and commercial companies are. And this has nothing to do with "we're just trying to make money" or some other BS
I hate greedy people
If I see an ad, that company is DEAD to me. If their product was anything but a garbage scam, they wouldn't need to advertise. THAT SIMPLE. Adblockers literally save them, now they just need to stop giving all that money to google etc for the advertising that BEST CASE SCENARIO nobody sees
Would also be great if they didn't host the literal viruses as ads on their sites as well. They should also be accountable whenever someone falls for it because I'm sure your average person not used to the nuisances of the Internet might think it's real then now all of their data is stolen because a greedy website seems to NEED to host viruses on their sites for ad revenue
@@Muffin_MasherThat seems kinda like silly logic to me. There's nothing wrong with ads, and a product doesn't become shit for having an ad. The problem is the sheer volume of ads that get blasted at you at every possible chance, as well as the fact that all of those sketchy malware ads are even allowed to exist.
Nothing like a sudden jarring burst of computer generated electronica at level saturation twice as loud as the video you intended to watch trying to sell me something I would never have any intention of buying. Ad-blocker forever.
In Maine, when the sh00ting happened, we were all looking up information about the sh00ter / what was currently happening. On the news site it was mostly playing on, we had to watch 2 minute ads before we could get our information, and we missed very important information about the killer, victims, and locations.
Needless to say we learned FROM TWITTER that the sh00tings were 10 minutes away from us and the name of the suspect. I think that's actually criminal that News sites in particular have video ads that cover the important content. That's insane
Edit: Yes, I know I censored words. UA-cam deleted my comment before. Not anything deep.
Yeah but you must be informed about the flame grilled Burger King whopper tho, important time sensitive life saving info can wait
It's equally ridiculous that you can't say the words you want to say on UA-cam. Tired of seeing and being confused by people talking about 'unalived' and 'sh00ter' and 'raysism'... Like for real? What are we 9?
@@krelekari Lol
@@chadhindsley5431 Because UA-cam would hide my comment. Certain words like sh00ter and such can put comments under review. It's unfortunate but that's why I typed it like that. I don't rly care about censoring, there's no deep hidden meaning behind it lol
Edit: I also I apologize if I misunderstood the tone of your message, I am autistic so it's hard for me to understand.
Yep lol that’s how I find out what’s going on. Nothing is more reliable than looking on the “latest” tab of Twitter
I have noticed in about 90% of all the remove your ad block websites that you can just refresh the page and it will think you removed your adblock
Nice to know.
Thanks!
The other worst thing is that the ads loads faster than the actually thing you wanted to watch
yeah, like with bad connection you try to watch and the only thing that doesn't stop every 8 seconds is the ads which play in their entirety and good quality
This is the result of Ajit Pai removing Net Neutrality laws.
The worst is when the connection is so bad that not even the ad loads and you just stuck waiting for the ad to load
And they are also way louder than the actual video
That's def by design
Cyberpunk 2077 references this, actually. If you notice, you can't walk around night city for more than a couple seconds without seeing some banner/ad on a billboard/building/bus stop. And if you ever turn on your television in the game, there aren't any shows or movies at all, it's literally just nonstop ads over and over again.
people like to think that cyberpunk is purely a fictional thing with how it presents itself, but i just went to vegas for the first time only earlier this week and i couldn't belive how accurate the game was when depicting ads absolutely EVERYWHERE. If anything Cyberpunk doesnt NEARLY live up to how many ads there could be in a city like vegas. I think people often miss the point that the game is very much an exaggerated take on the world we live in.
@@netchishid say its just our world in 2077💀
@@LexisVoyage Except we'll be less technologically advanced.
We are gonna have advertisements in our dreams one day.
8:57 8:57
charlie: “Check this out”
UA-cam: *LEAGUE OF LEGENDS*
Literally the web has changed ads to be " the main dish" and the actual content to be the "appetizers"
The irony is I have NEVER been influenced or interested in an online ad I’ve seen.
advertisers hate this one simple trick
Not consciously
The Ju just likes to annoy you
@@user-up1id5rv2m the thing though is even if i see things i want, i never buy it immediately, i always wait a few weeks or a couple months and most things i wanted i realize eh i didnt really want it that much. its a useful trick!
Ya and people say you will subconsciously buy the products advertised over others. No, most people just buy the cheapest product as long as it’s not garbage 😂
I hate those websites that refuse to work with adblocker, but when you turn it off you get hundreds of popups and you can barely see the page
Can't use website with ad-blocker on
Turns off ad-blocker
Can't use -webstie- website without ad-blocker on
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
😠
You need overlay blocker/remover. Just right click on the overlay and hide it so you can access the site.
Only encountered that in 🌽 websites lol it's manageable every where else
@@Ahmed-og2jmRegular forums and piracy sites too
Agreed
UA-cam is a prime example
when i watch on my laptop or desktop its great
but when i watch on my tv its 2-3 ads every 5mins it makes videos unwatchable.
At this point I'm just waiting for them to start putting ads inside the ads.
It is fucking ludicrous that there are actually people who try to design systems to counter ad blockers. They must be some of the most grating of corporate goons to interact with.
Ads should not exist period.
It's like if there were people delibaretly designing seatbelts that undo themselves on impact.
i don't buy shit from ads and i'm
even less likely to if i'm annoyed by them and refuse to on principle.
@@billjacobs521 basically youtube premium but for all sites
Giving them the benefit of rhe doubt. It might just be they are following orders to keep their jobs.
Agreed. The ad problem on the internet is wayyy out of hand.
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 😈
Remember a long, long time ago, when the internet wasn't gentrified?
@@itz_me_peaceful_devil_21 I bet you edit your comments to thank people for likes
*Install "Ad Nauseam" ad blocker, and it should work.* *I'll be deleting this comment in 5 minutes.*
@PartyhatRS prob not since its a bot😊
This is the new tactic of advertisers: show a boatload of ads and cause so much outrage among viewers, that popular youtubers start documenting their experience and upload them to youtube, where, again, the ad is boosted among subscribers. You've literally assisted them in getting that ad out there.
That website is stage 4 cancer of obnoxious ads
My absolute most detested ad style is when there is an invisible ad covering the entire web page, so if you accidentally click instead of scroll you get redirected to a virus site.
esp on phone, my god
And then you have to tab back in, click on it again, open a second virus tab and *then* it goes away on the main page.. but only for 5 seconds.
And you have to keep those tabs open or else it'll come back instantly. It's repulsive.
IT DRIVES ME INSANE
UA-cam to mp4 websites
Or the ads in mobile games where you have to wait 30s to click the X and when you do, you have to wait another 10s looking at a picture version of the ad before you can press the X again.
That "ad block isnt allowed popup" is forever ingrained in my soul.
First
Bro bought his account 💀
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
Ay bruh just remember comm owns you
Ads should not exist period.
The worst are the ads that PAUSE themselves when you change tabs.
I had a similar experience. My grandpa told me to search up this 60 min episode and I went to their website. They played 4 ads in a row, five seconds of the episode then more ads.
Even the FBI says you should use an Adblocker.
Wait, do they really?
@@mcleafybranch3914 Officially, yes. They recommend you use an adblocker to protect yourself online (especially from "malvertising").
@@mcleafybranch3914
It was some 2022 advisory about "Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users"
One of the listed points: "Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others. "
Based.
@mcleafybranch3914 Yes. They made a PSA about online criminals using ads to steal personal information and spread malware, and once of the recommendations on how to protect yourself was to use ad-blocking software.
If you want to read the original, go to IC3 (internet crime compaint center) website, public service announcements, year 2022, it's the first one on the list (Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users)
I love when they tell you to "please turn off ad-blocker" then bombard you with ads that block the article.
then give you literal fucking scams and malware ads
IGN is quite literally the worst example of this cause sometimes I will open chrome on my phone and see an article about something that I was interested about earlier. So I’ll tap on it, and I can’t even read the article because the ads are constantly blocking the article and then making the thing I’m trying to read freak tf out because the article is bouncing up and down trying to load MORE ads.
Get an anti-adblock killer addon, it helps a ton!
@@kayparodyIf you’re using an iphone with safari, ghostery is a pretty decent @dblocker
Turning off the addblocker just to turn on the articleblocker 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
That is Canadian News for you. A masterclass in user contempt, spinning narratives, and always looking out for #1.
if i need to turn off my ad blocker i rather close the page and do something else
I was literally in tears hearing Charlie say something as exaggerated as 30 second ads every 2-3 seconds, and then watching a clip with the main dude not even getting a full sentence out between ads.
Wasn't even exaggerated, I counted
Yeah he said "watch this" then I got an ad lmfao
I went through this a few years ago and if a site doesn't want me to use ad block for a news story I look elsewhere for it. I got so heated about it I was swearing at my phone near my mom and I never curse in front of her. She told me to calm down but it was infuriating getting these incredibly long ads for no information. What am I getting out of this situation besides high blood pressure and closer to a fucking stroke? Never again
Yeah, I thought Charlie was just joking but the fact that he was not speaks volumes.
If this doesn’t accelerate Alzheimer’s then I don’t know what else will.
It’s like constantly losing track of what you were saying
I also love how UA-cam has the gall to play ads twice as long as the video you're trying to watch. Heck, it's not even unusual to get 20 second ads for a 5 second video. It's absolute insanity.
And some of the time you can’t even skip them because they fit 12 seconds in the span of two 6 second ads, with one of them in Spanish so you can’t even understand it. Or you hit the jackpot and both of them are.
@@Liveandlearn789a lot of the time there’s 15 second unskippable ads
It's so funny because Xv*deos have LESS ads than YT. They are literally 5 second long or 30 seconds long with a skip button. There is ONE ad too. This is insanity.
The most you can do in terms of skipping is watching a short a few seconds then returning to the video
Virtual insanity
It's always morally correct to block UA-cam ads.
You know this shit BAD when the stuttering actually jumpscares you💀💀
I don't think there is a SINGLE ad I've seen online that caused me to want to run out and buy said product, I in fact do the exact opposite.
I thought it was common knowledge at this point, but apparently it's not. Most ads don't intend to make you buy something immediately, but rather they try to nudge you towards buying a product of a specific brand. For example, there is toothpaste A and toothpaste B. If you saw ads for toothpaste A and didn't see any for B, there is a higher chance for you to choose option A. Also ads rely a lot on large scale. An ad won't work for every single person, but if it works for, say, 5% of people who saw it, it's probably good enough for the company
USE , U BLOCK ORIGIN. Plz it will save u
One example: I bought some native body wash on my Walmart app, and now I am bombarded with ads for that brand. I will now never purchase that brand again
@@MrsDragonChefthat has nothing to do with that brand though, That's just Google AdSense using your purchase history / cookies to Target specifically tailored ads towards you
The only time I've ever bought from an Online ad is on IG, The algorithm actually finds me things that I'm actually interested in lol
We just had a friend get hit in a drunk driving accident and die. While trying to watch the news report for it on the city's news site, we were interrupted in the same way by a McDonald's ad and a House buying ad. Absolutely disgusting.
i'm sorry for your loss. i had a friend die the same way last year around this time. hope you're doing okay
stay strong 🙏🏽
I'm sorry for your loss and fuck ads.
my step brother died in a tornado and the video itself is already about 2-3 minutes long but so are the ads, to the point where i just screen record the video to watch it
I’m sorry for your loss. May he pass onto the afterlife in peace.
I actually smiled when he smiles at the camera
The most annoying are the twitch ads... they always happen in the worst moment. Good things there are extensions out there that blocks them
Twitch is brain rot. Even more then UA-cam so should probably quit watching that stuff anyways
Fun fact, those two jump scares are likely attempts to load more ads, but there were none at the moment to show or it was linked to a dead ad they didn't remove from the cycle. They wanted you to see two more ads there, I promise.
USE , U BLOCK ORIGIN. Plz it will save u
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVE ong bro ublock origin is literally my babygirl
Interesting fact, if you run your own router, you can put a firewall addition in place that blocks certain links, which CAN BE the links to ads. I personally use Firewalla and I love it to death. I refuse to run a router of my own without Firewalla ever again
Garanteed
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVE Ublock on chrome hardly works tho, it works on Firefox and OperaGX perfectly though. Weird.
Ads really are the worst. I don't think I've ever seen an ad and said I want to buy that product or service.
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 😈
Ads should not exist period.
Penguinz0 inspires me... My parents said if I get 10k subscribers , they’d buy me a professional camera for recording... literally begging you guys...
@@davedave3520 ads are allowed to exist because that's how new businesses are able to propagate themselves easier. However, the internet is a depressing junkyard of ads.
Bro I purposely remember the advertised product to make sure I never buy it
Rule number one: No information or site is worth turning addblock off
A few weeks ago I had to read about some news and I went to some big reputable news site (forgot which) and I tried to read, but was on phone without adblock - banner ad left, banner ad right, banner ad below, banner ad above, and an autoplaying video ad that took up half of the space that was left to read, I had a total of about 5% of the screen left to read, I could literally see 10 words at a time and still had to scroll to the right to see the rest
I did a survey for college not long ago and it reached almost 10k people in my country.
A suprising amount of people, mainly young people, are absolutely OK with ads existing.
The issue is how invasive they are. As in, they wouldn't mind an ad or two at the beginning of a video, but would hate one during a video, not to mention a song...
Also there is an interesting psychological effect of those 5sec ads. People just resent them more regardless of them being as long as your wait time to skip it.
And an unskippable ad is for most people the biggest offense, since it downright takes your freedom to skip the ad away and in a semi passive-aggressive way tells you to shut up and watch it.
It's not that they don't mind the ads, it's that they are much easier to avoid if they're at the beginning of the video. Then you don't mind them because you can just go do whatever until the ad is done.
normally i dont care. like if there are 6 in one youtube video i just skip it and move on. however, the bane of my existence is all those fkn ads on recipe blogs. they are so outrageous and invasive and always just hit you at the worst time when you are making something. so i try to hit the print recipe button as soon as possible because it makes trying new recipes such a nightmare and a headache
People were fine with ads on the side of web pages and even would be fine with small video ads in say the top corner of a youtube video similar to how they do with NFL broadcast etc when they split the screen. Like you said the CHOICE is what matters humans when given no choice but to watch will naturally resent and rebel, if you just put the ad in the corner of the video subconsciously people believe they can CHOOSE to just not look which means they are fine with it.
The same way the skip button makes most people ok with pre video ads simply making them less invasive fixes the problem and tricks people into thinking they have free will even though they are still consuming it. The problem is greed means websites take a lot of money to make ads unskipable or invasive af, they don't care about their users all they care about is money which is why I hope the ad block war continues indefinitely.
Thats the whole reason I started using one back in like 2008, I don't mind ads, but when they become malicious and interrupt what I'm trying to do, thats when it becomes an issue, I've used ad block since then and dont ever plan on not using it. As soon as any site tells me to turn it off I just go to a different site if theres no workaround
I always do other things while ads play and mute my speakers
The trick to adblock-blockers is more adblockers. I run like 5 of them at once and almost nothing stops my browsing
😂😂😂I thought I was the only one I have literally 7 of them at once
I get away with just uBlock Origin and NoScript, but def glad to hear layering just adblockers works well, too.
uBlock Origin's element picker is also your friend! Helps zap all the little popups and other ad elements that bleed through during UI updates. Don't have to deal with threatening messages from youtube or "select cookie" walls. Zap⚡
Ultrainstinct mode browsing. You are the monster the ads created, and now you cannot be stopped.
the 'almost' in your statement is what gets me
Now adblock doesnt work and YT is making Adblock skip whole video
Stuff like tornado warnings, someone shooting in your area
"HEY TRY THIS VHVJCHH DJ CJ" out loud, so loud the k**ler could hear...
re: Oh so sorry... UNALIVER.
That smile in the intro legit made me happy and I dunno why
Ublock is the best thing ever made. As long as ads live I will wield it. All because they have to DROWN every website in ads.
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 😈
I’d reccomend Ad Nauseum! It’s based on UBlock but it also clicks every ad it sees distorting the ad tracking so the ad information on you being sold is essentially useless.
It doesn't work on twitch ads though
i can bust on you in a fight@@RealYamcha
*ublock origin
If a website tells you to disable ad blocker, you can inspect element it and delete the popup and continue on your site
that doesnt work every time sadly. Theyre getting smarter
Use noscript to block the script entirely
But then that sometimes breaks the website
Further tip: you can add overflow: scroll attribute to element to allow scrolling. Sometimes they disable that too
its sickening im getting ready to just kick in my computer and smoke weed for the rest of my time on earth
I was trying to watch local news on its website while we were in a tornado warning so i could keep updated. I got a 60 second ad every time i clicked on the live feed or if i needed to refresh.
Its not just dystopian. We are in the dystopia.
there is a reason why 1½ hour movies take 3 hours when they are on TV...
I honestly am so sick of pop up ads or trying to load a page and reading something and it disappears like half a page down and having to scroll down to find it
I CAN BEAT CHARLIE IN A FIGHT 😈
I however disagree for I have powers. Powers in which I was attained through 2 decades of hard training i started when I was a sperm and with dedication and the sigma alpha grindset i won over 300 million of my brothers. In which being a fetus i learned and started to generate powers. While you were watching coco melon I was training to use my powers. Powers of which I have to use to defeat evil. Evil is you. If evil gets to the powers I attained it could destroy the world. This is why I must stop you. I am warning you now, if you don’t stop I’ll have to use my powers
Ads should not exist period.
Penguinz0 inspires me... My parents said if I get 10k subscribers , they’d buy me a professional camera for recording... literally begging you guys...
That pisses me off, especially if it's a long article or something
-Ad spam as seen in the video
-Giant popups when scrolling a bit
-Blasting ads on full volume
-Personalized/indecent ads
-Invisible site redirects, covering the entire page
-Nearly unclickable/fake X buttons
-Chains of site redirects, making it difficult to go back to the previous page
-Fake download banners
-Dark patterns for everything
-Mobile pages even less usable
-API requests (like the popup at 7:17)
-Anti Adblock
-VPN block
-Data collection everywhere you go
And just so much more, to the point that all of this just seems natural nowadays.
This intrusion is just getting more and more advanced, while actual laws protecting Internet users remain ever so barely noticeable.
If not for adblocks and some browsers actually caring for your web experience, the Internet would be an utter hellscape for you and your device.
USE , U BLOCK ORIGIN. Plz it will save u
the redirects!!!!!!!!! I might hate those the MOST. Especially the chains.
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVE Oh definitely, it's been a lifesaver for many years now. Using uBlock with its filters is a night and day difference.
I used to play a dumb phone game, and the X on ads were nearly always fake X marks on the wrong side, but some ads had it on that side, and I just ended up learning which ones had them flipped and to sometimes wait because sometimes you had to wait 10-30 seconds to click the X
@@GOJOSATORUWILLIVEI'm pretty sure all of us know about AdBlocks. You don't need to spam it under each comment.
I'm from EU and I've never seen a single press article asking to turn off my ad blocker, they just force you to accept the cookies
Oh. That's illegal actually
By EU law, you're always allowed to refuse cookies.
And I absolutely hate when they do it anyway, and those who just make it extra hard to refuse them.
By making you manually refuse EVERY SINGLE One of their 1000's of cookies and cookie watchers
Legit, I've had to turn off the same 200 cookies for 300 different companies, manually. On one singular website
@@annameyldamn I didn't know that.
Well technically you can refuse cookies... if you pay a monthly fee that costs between 1-12€. Some make it really hard to figure out how to decline cookies and they'll ruin your experience with the biggest pop-ups they could think of, but most of them just won't allow you to access to any of their content.
When a site wants me to turn ff my ad blocker, I block the site from showing up in my search results using an extension
I agree with the whole "unusable without ad block thing" since ads are becoming more unbearable, but the thing is NSFW ads are actually being allowed on some platforms. I was at home watching UA-cam on the TV with my dad about a week ago (UA-cam on TV is unbearable without an adblock but I have to deal with it) but the thing is we got an ad, which was just utterly stupid. It was skippable, but it started off with the first five seconds being a guy looking to someone off camera and saying: "Dude, I am so f**king horny" and then we skipped the ad before it continued on any longer. After that both me and my dad just looked at each other in surprise and laughed about it for the next 15 minutes or so. If any UA-camr who wasn't one of UA-cam's favourite money makers said that, they'd have their video demonetized, but if an ad does it, it's completely fine. Worst part is that we aren't signed in to a UA-cam account on the TV and were watching only gameplay stuff, so that was just a run of the mill ad and not a targeted one, which makes me incredibly worried about the possibility of that kind of ad popping up in a video being watched by a child.
A slight update on the situation: I saw a mobile game ad recently. Now again I must clarify that, I don't search anything NSFW on UA-cam meaning it was once again not a targeted ad. Now this was with UA-cam on my phone this time (I have every kind of precaution for adblocking on my laptops but not on my phone). It was for a game where they literally blurred the chest of one of the female characters in the ad because of a total lack of clothing. I am glad it was censored, but my god UA-cam what are you doing?! Children use this platform!
they're not even hiding it anymore, hide the children.
Fr most ads I get are p*rn
I mean, Google ads use your search history to target ads. There’s two choices: either you have porn in your search history, or you have zero history and they’re letting ALL ads go to you as a result.
@@InalienableOttermost people do though 😭
This is a great SNL skit idea taken to a repetitive extreme for this one.
The fact I’m getting multiple ads through a video ranting about ads is the funniest thing about this
ad blocks for pc.
Brave for android.
Back out and reclick the video to reset long or unskippable ads down to 5-10 second ads on consoles.
@@Butt_Muffinwhat about iOS
@@sovietunion8304 firefox I think
it has extensions on android at least.
I mean apple is trash but at least it's a tad bit more bearable like that
@@sovietunion8304 You paid enough for 3 entire phones to have a phone that brags about features invented half a decade ago, you already shot yourself in the foot.
(Though iOS looks better in my book)
sadly nothing@@sovietunion8304
Now even Windows 11 comes with build in ads. What a time to be alive.
the funniest thing is we dont even need ads. we have the internet. if we want something we just search for it. boy cott the ad industry
By the time you finish the 30 second ad, you’ve forgotten about the 2 seconds you just watched 😭
i legit didn't know what the guy in the video was talking about anymore after the second ad
This is why people are so uninformed you see more ads than info most click away
I was honestly going to say the same thing.
My ‘favorite’ idiotic ads on YT are the ones you can skip after 5 seconds that *don’t identify what they selling* It’s only 5 seconds, but if they don’t identify the product being sold ( _if it’s on YT, it’s a garbage product anyway_ ) in the first 5 seconds- all the more annoying because of the utter futility.
Even UA-cam is unbearable now... We started with banner ads which was okay. Then we had one ad roll that can be skipped in 5 seconds, then 2 ads that skippable, then 5 ads that is skippable, and now we started to have 2-3, minute long unskippable ads in every video.
This is only an issue if you watch on a mobile device. Browser version is much less intrusive, and ad block seems to be working on yt again for me.
@@parkercrossland410 false, i only watch youtube on my PC and it's literally unbearable.
@@apeblackberry3641 use adblock then?
I've once gotten 1 and a half hour long UNSKIPPABLE ad...
@@apeblackberry3641my adblock once failed and I had to watch 3 40 second ads back to back
UA-cam on TV is the worst, even when I want to watch a 30 secs video, I might get a 45 secs ad
Just as one of the ads started on his screen, UA-cam also started a midroll ad on mine
I was at a funeral for a man who passed in his 90s. After long and emotional peaches from his family they went to play his favourite song (an old Irish song) and an unslippable ad for tiktok played. It was the most surreal and uncomfortable thing.
wow this radicalized me a little more just reading it
:/ What was the song?
How big were the peaches?
This is the most dystopian thing I've read all day. Disgusting.
Sorry for your loss, and sorry that you had to go through that.
@@ordinarryalien wild rover :')
I recently used the free version of spotify for a couple weeks while I was switching my Premium accounts and I was floored by how atrociusly invasive the ads have gotten. I couldn't even get through 4 songs without 2 long unskippable ads playing, and every time it promised "30 minites of ad-free listening" it would never actually deliver that. Truly dystopian feeling.
MP3s are your friend.
@@RaptorNX01 Spicetify is your friend
The free version of Spotify is virtually unusable. Aside from the fairly mediocre selection. That’s why I switched to YT Music.
You only get two?!?!?
I get 3 songs per 4 ads.
did you tap now to watch a short video?
Still waiting for UA-cam to admit thier defeat in the Adblock War
The only solution is to COMPLETELY quit watching tv and all mediums that advertisers depend on...
Noticed UA-cam recently started adding a new feature involving the "1 of 2 adds" where instead of skipping both in one step, you have to skip both separately. Worse when both are 15 seconds and unskippable. They're appearing more often as well.
Why do people need to watch 15 seconds of stupid nothingness it's like the 6 sec ones are my preferred to watch if I have to I don't care about oh the general give you a break when you need one. Ads. I need a break from that too stop showing ads seriously
Just yesterday, I was watching UA-cam on my Playstation, and I legit got 5 Ads at once. I counted, too
@@freemanthedelphox6249just got 3 BACK TO BACK like AD skip AD skip AD skip VIDEO
It’s really annoying when I’m trying to sleep. And I get back to back ads to skip.
I just keep refreshing until it fucks off. I'd rather spend 10-20 seconds swiping it closed and clicking again than 5 seconds watching an ad.
I’ve downloaded Adblock for all of my parents devices and the amount of help they ask for dramatically dropped. Most ads aren’t just annoying they genuinely malicious and will try to trick less tech informed people. Not to mention the strangely pervy mobile game ads or if you are on an illegal anime site it’s straight up adult content
It seems like sites with less-than-legal purposes (not talking black market organ deals, I'm talking like pirating music or something) always have the scummiest ads. Like they can't get car or insurance or fast food companies to buy the ad space, they can only get malicious hosts. Mostly fake downloads and skeevy porn site links.
agreed! soemtimes my parents thought it was my fault,until i install adblock so they dont see that intrusivr ads
and if you're on said illegal site they somehow know exactly who you are.
@@Cosmik60yeah because they take your data bro which is how personalized ads work which is why if your on for example a porn site it will say for example... "hot singles in new york want to fuck now!" is caused by them taking data which can tell them your location
@@LexisVoyage that's just straight bullshit but whatever...
Whenever you go on any website there's certain informations that's getting exchanged. One of it is your IP address. Which contains a *rough* estimate on your location since every ISP has a certain range of IP addresses. That's how these ads know your location, but they don't know for sure.
My ISP for example is a bunch of cities away from me, so any ad just thinks I'm from there.
There is no personally identifying information in your IP address and if you don't want them to know where you're from just use a VPN
no wonder internet is going back to written articles when 90% of the video you want to watch is not the video you want to watch
Remember:
You can bypass adblocker alerts on news pages by deleting the HTML elements and setting the body style to "overflow:scroll;"
Every single video you click on UA-cam, there is an ad. Even videos that don't have ads , have ads..
Yup. No ads just means the creator doesn't get pay. They still get ads.
Yup, and I can't even listen to a song without getting 2 ads or 1
Exactly. Even if by some grace of the algorithm there is no pre-roll ad before your video - if its a major UA-camr (or a more well known one) there is basically guaranteed to be some sort of sponsored content somewhere in the video forcing me to skip ahead
PS: Firefox has an Add-on called SponsorBlock that automatically skips over these sponsored parts and shows where they are on the progress bar. It's honestly shocking how much of some videos are sponsored content.
@@Bete_Noire87over exaggerating
Even the videos that are just ads have ads
Another ad nightmare is fandom wiki's, especially on the smartphone when you try to look up a guide for a quests or something you only see about 1/3 of the actual screen
AGREED
The first thing I thought of
If there is only a fandom wiki for a specific thing, i consider there to be no wiki for that specific thing. F#@! Fandom.
There's an extension called 'indie wiki buddy' and if possible, it will redirect you off of fandom and onto a different fan wiki instead
And dont you dare forget to close that tab, the damn thing will start rolling video ads at max volume.
Thanks for pointing the issue!
I'm watching on my phone and I got two 20 second adds before I could even begin watching this video.