half of the ads I get are literally for adblockers as well. UA-cam will go to war with adblockers, then still allow adblockers to advertise their programs.
@@thepersonwhoasked9475Because the adblockers paying for advertising are the ones which make exceptions for some sites like youtube in exchange for money
Yup. I basically do EVERYTHING on firefox, as it allows me to install ublock origin (may the devs be blessed!) on all devices. Also i think firefox is the only browser which allows to install extensions on android. Correct me if i am wrong
As far as I know, Kiwi Browser is the only mobile browser with "full" extension support. Some do not work because mobile ≠ desktop, but most I use do. It's made by a solo dev who seems to care about privacy too. I do recommend checking it out.
2000: Ads. 2005: More ads. 2010: Tons of ads and they're becoming very annoying. 2015: Unbereable amount ads that distrupt the experience. 2020: Ads of actively harmful products or malware in unbereable amounts. Pay to get rid of them from the service. 2024: Ads are the vast majority of content in any page you go and you get them despite paying for subscription. "Why do people hate ads so much, they decide to use adblockers? Can't they see that it's hurting us?"
I don't think the 2024 situation is much worse than the 1998 situation... It was really, really bad, especially since we didn't have the sophisticated tools we do now. The only reason it ever got better was a) browser improvements that should have been obvious, like "no autoplay" and "no popup", and b) adblock.
To the companies: Hurting you is now the point since you force viruses and scams on people, and even force NSFW on kids while attacking UA-camrs for cursing.
They disallow swearing within the first like 15 seconds of a video. I don't know what videos you're watching but the ones I watched the person swears and they're monetized.
@@MamaMOB theres this fun fact about youtube as well, the rules dont actually matter. they will only follow the rules if they get bombarded on twitter, or if you dont bring enough traffic to the site. large creators are fairly safe to do most things (aside from genuine crime) while small users will and do struggle when doing almost anything without some unknown guidelines strike or a random fake company claiming their original content as stolen. (and the swearing thing is actually based on frequency not timestamp of language, so if you say it occasionally its fine but saying fuck ten times in a row will ruin ya)
its become damn near as essential as even a basic antivirus at this point. all it takes is one usb for a bad virus, or one misclick online even while just trying ot update drivers.
@Demonpumkin if you're used to it, or know what to look for. Yes. Older family members and frienss who know just enough to go looking for drivers have caused me a few headaches this way
youtube used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. It showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted. Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlights" crowd.
@@tsm688 there's definitely a strong presence of those dying from thirst. MxR plays is a prime example. As is anything COUB. The ads have been tryna sell me on everything from shiny rocks, to dating 60 somethings and long ass cruises. None of that appeals to me. I only like shiny rocks that cut, or make lasers. Travel is only as far as the nearest food shop, or cluster of trees I can camp in. As for that last one... I'm not dating someone old enough to be my mother.
That’s because your brain is likely fully developed. You aren’t the target audience. Also they are playing the law of averages: someone, somewhere, will buy it because an ad played.
Ngl adds have never been a factor in me choosing to buy something but they certainly have been a factor in me avoiding several products. Generally the product is worse then the add says it is and if the add doesn’t even look good that’s a good sign it ain’t good. So thanks for the help in saving me money I guess
I bet the companies against Ad Blockers get that same thought bubble that lawyer got in The Simpsons then shivers. (You know, the one where its basically paradise)
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Capitalism will (probably) survive without ads! If a business needs ads to survive, SKILL ISSUE!~ People will have to sell products and services that customers want and need, instead of maximizing the use of professional liars!
I've heard the echo of this sentiment enough to believe that because the drive to mantain or increase profits remains, but more people either block adverts of simply leave the site, the ads on these sites only become more intrusive and increase in volume, making the experience for people who don't use a blocker worse still, and mandating its use and popularity further, renewing the cycle. Mercy for those who still don't block ads...
@@justinbuddy56use a script blocker for those, the adblock check is part of the page script, so if nothing is allowed to run then you end up with a barebones text only page and no ads or blocker detection
until manifest v3 blocks ad blocks, look it up its worrying for the state of the internet, especially since chromium based browsers have such a dominant market share already
Finally someone fukin says it. I'm about to break something with the amount of unskipable 1 minute tampon ads I'm getting. I'm gay, I'm male, don't have sisters, where in the world would Google get their "yeah u deffo need this" idea??
youtube used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. It showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted. Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlights" crowd.
Which is why I don’t complete the surveys because they’ll get worse no matter what I do. Also had to cancel my subscription to regular UA-cam because the price jumped up by over 150% the original price. I use UA-cam to listen to music, but I’m now strongly considering just buying it from the seller, which I should have done long ago, however, it would easily cost me 800 dollars to get the hours of music I want at the moment.
I miss when ads were just a JPEG or GIF banner at the top of a web page. Now they're far more invasive, bothersome, and getting more and more repetitive. Political ads every 2 years, Mint Mobile, Hero Wars, Envoy, some anime GACHA....
I don't know on what places you've browsed, but ads used to be easy worse. In the past there was flash, which allowed for fluent animation, sound and the execution of scripts. Especially the scripts were a problem: back then, you didn't need to go to a website to get infected by malware, if the ad was loaded, you'd already be infected by malware. Another problem because of scripts in flash were the popover ads which would break their own boundaries and just fill your screen. Now you've got a potentially malicious ad which forced you to click on, unless you closed the site. Sure we still have annoying popovers which ask for a subscription, but at least the close button does what it's supposed to. Lastly there was sound. Flash supported full-on animation, and it has even been used to make animated shows. So of course ads would play sounds on pages which were normally silent, just to try and grab your attention. In reality, they would only annoy you, because multiple ads would load on a page, all screaming at you all at once.. Although I mourn the death of indie animation using Flash, Adobe just couldn't make it safe. Ads were never good.
one time I kept getting Mint Mobile ads even with ad blocker on and it was getting really annoying I went to the video itself and disliked it. I don't mind Ryan and all but if your ad is interrupting my watch time every single second then I'm going to get super annoyed and hate that product.
The only ads I've ever been interested for were The Battle Cats and like three music videos (yes, music videos). Everything else was just repetitive slop (don't even get me started on those misleading hypercasual ads)
A tree in a pot cannot grow indefinitely. At some point the tree starts competing with itself for nutrients, the roots choking themself, rotting, and the tree will die.
But then the roots will start shooting out through the pot holes and cracks. At this point the tree will expand beyond its pot, invading other plants' territory
Exactly. That's why a tree in a pot needs to be pruned, as well as periodically unpotted, have its roots trimmed, and get repotted with fresh soil. Corporations have gotten too big if they're an effective monopoly the way UA-cam, Facebook, et al have become. Monopolies need to be broken up into smaller component areas of business and divested into more competitive new businesses. It's not good for anyone for any one conglomerate entity to get too expansive and control too many things all by itself.
Of all the ads I’ve experienced, I’d say the worst one for me has to be the autoplay ads on fandom. Sometimes I’ll be reading through information for a game, and suddenly the autoplay ad at the top will change, and my perspective will be shifted back to the top of the page. Then I need to scroll back down, find where I was, and hope that doesn’t happen again for the next 2 minutes.
First of all, I must specify that I don't pay to stop ads because I don't care about them on Prime. However, concerning extortion for Prime, that couldn't be further from the truth of the matter. You get free Twitch subs each month including the prime gaming rewards. If you use Twitch you'll be technically saving money regardless of paying them. It's literally the only site with ads that I'm okay with.
Target: (sexualizes children in video ads) Google: This is fine EA: (markets gambling games to children) Google: No problem here NYT: (posts video about why child labor should be legalized) Google: Freedom of speech, man Some Random: (posts a 13 second clip of their kid splashing in a pool) Google: CHILD ABOOS!!! CALL THE TAKEDOWN BRIGADE! IP BAN FOR LIFE!
this was one of the first times ive seen the internet without an adblock since like 2015 and ive never been so mind blown. how the fuck do people use this shit 😭😭😭
The breaking point for me was when the ads actually stopped me from consuming the content. I clicked on the content not an ad,show me the content not an ad. This was back in 2006 and we only had dialup out here,I didn't have the data to waste on that intrusive nonsense anyways. I started blocking and never looked back. Now they just want to waste *more* of my time,it's backsliding to the way half of television airtime was just ads. I only have so much time,I'm not wasting it on that.
For me it was getting an ad that was on the side of a website and made noise. As someone with a lot of ads open, I don't want to sort through everything to find out where that weird noise is coming from.
I remember studying web advertising and all of the cool theories shared back on the day on how to engage the viewers with interactive ads and story telling… It all went to hell once Google automated the process and became a defacto gatekeeper. The ads nowadays are low quality and only used by small scammy companies. Bigger companies mostly just use YT. No one is getting value out of this except Google and Meta. The only right thing at this stage would be regulate the online advertising market. Advertising tracking should be made illegal too. Honestly, no consumer likes it or is ok with it.
Interactive ads, reminds me of an ad that I saw quite recently and that my adblocker didn't block. I was reading an article, there was an ad in the middle of it, and the text below it was blurred. It told me to answer the question to read the rest of the article, the question was about the price of something at a company, there were 3 options, when you chose one of them it said that the price is the lowest of the three options. Really interesting idea that I will remember for a while, but I wouldn't want to see more of it because that'd be really annoying.
@@k327dev the one they showed me and it was back in 2012, had like a video with a guy and you could choose dimb but funny things he could do. Another example they showed us where ads where with a guy and a bear. You could write what would happen next. Lastly I remember this funny one from Audi that said something along the line of “the longest ad allowed is 10 seconds. We only need 5 to show how fast our car is”. I don’t remember much details but back than everyone was excited thinking how ads could be funny, informative and interactive instead of just showing a stupid banner. Problem is that kind of advertising was expensive and often very specific to the website it was developed for. Those are still ads but at least they were meant to have some creativity. Instead ads are now just stupid banners based on what an algorithm thinks you like. Almost no human interaction required.
The worst is that stupid pop-up telling you they care about your data while hoping you'll accept their 100+ partners harvesting your data, just a waste of my time having to uncheck everything all the damn time
exactly! they literally hacked the law! It was meant for us "to be able to disagree" because back in the days cookies just flew into your system without any notification. result of the law : everyone just clicks accept to get rid of the popup. Websites barely give you the option to "disagree all" hoping you just give up and accept. It's parasitic
It's gotten pretty disgusting with the nefarious techniques these corporations use. Recently, we decided to try Disney+'s ad-supported tier as we're on a budget. In the first few weeks, we thought "ah, that's not too bad", there was a single 20-30 second ad every 25-30 minutes or so. Then, as time went buy and we got comfortable with using the service, we started getting 1:20 minutes ads in the same time interval. I'm sure this is done on purpose to get people hooked and then make them pay more.
@@SucculentSpaz When you're on a budget? Nah. I wouldn't care if I was a billionaire, I'd still pirate before I _pay_ for ads, just on principle. That's the literal only reason to pay! To get the ideal level of service! If I'm going to pay for the better service and then just get the same service as the free tier anyway, there's no reason to pay at all.
I noticed something when I made a new instagram account after years. The first 7/10 days or so, I had basically no ads on my feed. Then I suddenly got flooded and stopped using it.
We're becoming ads allergic. All of those changes has reduced my need to consume stupid content or products. The web will face the same fate than TV.. a death from its own devolving direction.
hate to say it but you're right. hard to imagine the web dying but, just like email, the protocol is becoming less and less useful because it's both so incredibly centrally-owned and organized yet wholly spam-ridden. the upshot is we don't need to invent a new medium, just a new protocol.
@@NotAdachiPeople I mean in the sense that email "died". It's not possible for people to set up email servers any more - they'll be ignored by the commercial servers - and any communities which existed in it as a medium have been sandpapered out of existence by the endless attacks on it from all sides.
In some cases, you literally can't use website without ad block because they put an overlay in front of the download button that redirects to another site.
back in 1998 or so, shady download sites were already like that... there were whole long lists of instructions to follow before you were allowed to download something... "click this, then this, then this, then vote for me, and the download will unlock"
@tsm688 that must have kept going for awhile because I was born around then and I remember trying those. I could never get it to work, always got stuck with one of the social media sites not registering the like or something. Good thing too since there was probably just a virus behind that wall.
@@wrathofainz Close out of the site, click again and it'll redirect you. What's worse is that some sites block the element you tried to click before, so you need to refresh.
In croatia/yugoslavia TV ads, commercials were called EPP Economic propaganda programme. There was always a block of it after the main evening news show. That was just plain PPP political propaganda programme
Another thing that I would like to add to your very good video: people don't show their lives on IG; Facebook, or TikTok. They advertise it. They are so formatted that they no longer know how to communicate or express themselves.
Advertisers: _"How are we supposed to make money?"_ By making products people want to buy. The entire reason people started subscribing to cable TV in the early 1980s was to GET AWAY from advertising. Cable TV became an ad-infested wasteland, thanks to advertising and now you want to repeat that mistake on the Internet. Also, I'M the one paying for this Internet connection on MY computer. That means I get to choose what I'll put up with on it. If you had been happy with small, banner ads, then Internet advertising might have worked. But you guys abused the HELL out it, with pop-ups, pop-unders and full-page, seizure-inducing flashing images, and NOW you want full-screen, un-skippable video that goes on for minutes at a time? LOL, no. It's ad blocking time. So here we are.
when there are literally no consequences for lies, scams & even outright malware in ads (& just on the internet in general), there is no incentive for companies to even consider the interests of regular people. also, they have practical monopolies so there is even more incentive to never innovate again; no reason for them to build a better product.
Mine's every 2....and the ads are bigger than the videos. Maximize those accidental clicks. They were far more sensitive to touch and rotation, as well. A brush of clothing won't change the video, but it sure will open those dopey ads. Video won't rotate worth a 💩 but the ads skip button bounced all over the place if the phone wasn't in full upright or side position. Insanity.
Try checking out something called ReVanced, you can use it to edit an APK of the UA-cam app with patches that remove ads. It also has a lot of other nice features. Edit: also if you're phone is rooted, you don't even have to patch a separate APK, I believe you can just patch the app directly.
I've had several instances where I'll skip an ad and it'll just *immediately* give me two more, usually without the option to skip. It's actually just ridiculous.
Here are the two main reasons why cable TV has ads: 1. The ever-increasing royalty fees that studios charge to the cable networks to broadcast their shows and movies; and 2. Bloat, which afflicts both the cable networks and the studios. Bloat means an excessive percentage of administrators vs. actually productive workers. These two reasons feed off each other: the more administrative bloat the cable TV networks and the studios have, the more money they need to make. This bloat one-two punch is what necessitates increases in cable TV commercials over time. Someone made a series of charts that illustrate a bureaucracy's lifecycle. Here are the stages of said lifecycle: 1. Launch 2. Growth 3. Maturity 4. Bloat 5. Budget Cuts 6. Failure/Implosion *Launch:* Tight budgets, modest pay, minimal benefits, high camaraderie *Growth:* rapid growth in program and staffing; morale high *Maturity:* "mission creep", union & admin gain politcal power; debts solidify, infighting *Bloat:* budget is flat but admin costs rise; gaming the system and fraud are rife *Budget Cuts:* Program abandoned as focus shifts to protecting budget and staff pay/benefits *Failure/Implosion:* the competent retire leaving the incompetent in command; morale low, chaos and failure the norm; organizational implosion
I’m Belarusian, but I watch some Russian-language channels. After UA-cam disabled monetization for Russia, a major part of their viewers received an ad-free experience. Basically, every Russian UA-camr now uses Boosty (a Russian government-backed big tech product), which serves as an alternative to Patreon (since it’s blocked) and accepts Russian cards. So, in some places, this shift has already occurred.
@@constantineandriyanov8200 Yes, but I was speaking generally about the entire Russian UA-cam platform. Sometimes greed is so significant that even opposition figures are willing to use Boosty. Btw your name and surname are literally the same as those of a Russian UA-camr I used to watch in the past.
If you're willing to download something to your phone, look up youtube revanced. Blocks all the ads and I haven't gotten any (aside from creator-made sponsors, which revanced can also detect and auto-skip) in so long. One caveat I've found is that sometimes it takes a while for the videos to actually load and you'll just have a blank screen. I still think it's worth it though.
A lot of people don't even know there are ads block extensions. (Most of my IT professors don't have adblock install on their browsers). Google going war with adblockers only made them more popular than ever.
Thanks Streisand Effect Company: "Please don't use an adblocker." People: "Wait, you can block ads?" People: [installs ad blockers] Same thing happened when kids were told not to pirate content. They were taught that they can get content for free and that it's easy
I have a friend that SUPPORTS ADS, and is a google fanboy. I still don’t understand why. He believes that google is a service that is worth giving data to for their service. I would agree, if it weren’t for the fact that google is a monopoly and doesn’t need anymore of our money
Also google slowing down PCs with ad blocker does not really work, because people will assume they are getting bad internet or something is wrong with the PC they are using
The only valid attitude in response is "i do not consent to ads or privacy violations." I block all ads, I've switched carriers, OS, anything trying to push this on me. I got belligerent with it.
Somewhere around 2003 I bought a 1982 Honda CB900f. It was really cool but in very bad shape. I was amazed to find a website that someone had poured dozens of hours of effort into, giving detailed instructions on how to rebuild carburetors and other such things on just that kind of bike. I needed help beyond the repair manual and there it was for free. All the person who made the site wanted was a chance to tell people to read the bible. To be honest, I didn't do any extra bible reading, but I didn't at all mind seeing that this guy wanted me to. Anyway, just a story about ye olde days.
Ads have gotten out of hand. These companies really think that 2 minutes per hour of Ads is not enough, they want you to consume ad content more and more. There will always be adblockers, but the moment they succeed in removing Adblockers, whether by law or by somehow outsmarting the extensions, is the moment that they lose business.
Brave + any additionnal adblocker plugin + "sponsorblock" plugin(to block sponsored parts of YT videos) + Remove EVERY google service = Relative peace on internet
That might change for you in a few months, after they added manifest v3 (which is next month) to the chromium engine, brave will be forced to adapt after some months have passed to keep up with the latest version of the engine. Breaking plugins like adblockers etc. Time to switch to FF or any other non chromium based browser.
The ads are not used as ads anymore. They're used as blockers to normal content. And how do you get to see the normal content? With monthly payment of course!
The thing is even when i ignored all the tracking and did not care about any internet privacy the ads sucked. And when i say i have literally NEVER seen an ad that showed something i would want to purchase i mean it.
ads don't promote products as much as they promote brands. they wanna brainwash you so that, if & when you are in the market for life insurance or whatever, you default to their cringey jingle & be a good little capitalist cog.
yes, but since you're on this channel, you're not one of the gullible people who inhale everything the internet throws at them. I'd say that 90 percent of the viewership here has above average knowledge regarding technology and the web in general. The "normies" are on a whole different level, unfortunately.
I've seen some! Not very often, but I was looking up fiber optic networking once and got an ad for a store that sells all that stuff pretty cheap. That's memorable because it's the ONLY time it ever happened.
UA-cam used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. I ended up not getting it, but because it was actually relevant to problems i had at the time, I at least considered it... It also showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted. Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlight" crowd. Their ads suck because they stopped targeting and stopped vetting.
Ad blockers on my router don't work for YT on my TV, even with a VPN. But at some point YT just gives up and stops showing ads. I haven't seen one on the TV app in nearly a month.
Adblocker on routers block ad domains, but YT ads are loaded from same domains as regular videos. So you have either buy a Premium or scan every single YT request in MITM style.
"You probably got an ad before this video." Nope, because I've been using ad blockers since pretty much the day they came out. I don't see 95% of the ads on the internet.
I can't remember the last time an ad actually made me want to buy something. In fact if an ad is particularly annoying, it makes me NOT want whatever its selling.
The fact that some bank websites prevent you from completing a transaction until you disable your ad blockers(website) or bank apps displaying ads while in the middle of a transaction(mobile apps)...
I've been running a script blocker and adblocker for over 15yrs now. Script blocker just because I don't want my privacy violated, which that in itself is a law violation which the FBI, FTC, FCC can crack down on as the source or means of the violation puts it their jurisdiction.
Whichever company dares to show me ads, I would specifically not buy any products from that company. Suppose I get an ad for abc toothpaste, I would boycott abc toothpaste and buy xyz toothpaste instead. After manifest v3, I would either use firefox, brave browser if they still have the built in adblock or make a dns wide adblock or even go as far as making a kernel level adblock.
Only the internet on smartphones is worse, I had a hard time switching from chrome to anything because of synchronization, but once I decided and found a browser with extension support, I was finally able to use the internet normally, without overlapping garbage on half of a 6 inch screen
Ads are the reason I moved from iOS to Android (Which has Vanced) and tbf It feels better not seeing ads. If the market is saturated, the companies are looking for a new color.
Ads are okay if they are high quality, meaning no explicit content and no scam and made by a professional team. It would also be okay if the ads were few, since then it would make the value of a single ad higher. I think Google and all the ad providers should be held LIABLE for any ads that are obvious scams or contain explicit content.
When you're selling junk, not only are you trying to spend as little as possible on ads, your cheap ads also naturally act as a filter for attracting people who have low discernment for quality.
There is one type of ad i really hate: fake continue buttons. Once, i saw an ad that was a large START button, but in the corner there was a small button that said ✅ continue to search. WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE FOOLING??
its made to look obvious on purpose, they want grandma and grandpa who dont actually know better to click because if you're dumb enough to click on the bright green button that doesn't match the site at all, you're almost certain to fall for the inevitable call from the "microsoft security team" or "amazon checking team" they want smart people to scoff and walk away while the rest are piggy banks in the scammers hands
0:24 "Every little personal detail of your life is now being tracked by giant internet conglomerates to serve you better ads" Ironically, this makes me want to block them even more.
UA-cam allowing ads with "almost" no clothing: Hey watch this! UA-cam when someone talks about how bad are ads showing the ads: HOW DARE YOU!!!!! AGE RESTRICTION
One thing that’s super annoying, is that on the mobile version of UA-cam, the ads are placed in a way where they’re SUPER easy to tap accidentally. I’ve accidentally opened so many ads just by accidentally rotating my phone and tapping the ad space at the wrong time.
Here's the thing about ads, and the people who defend them, from the perspective of someone who has worked in internet advertising and SEO. Internet ads are meant to be a supplemental source of income, that companies or individuals should be using to aid in the day-to-day operations of a website. Something to help pay for the servers, or the domain name, etc. **If you have a business and find that advertisements are your primary source of income, you have a fundamentally flawed business model.** Ads are also DISASTEROUS for SEO, ironically enough. Ads add bloat and page shift, which is a HUGE factor in performance in search engines. Google actually *favors* ad-free pages when it comes to weighing who goes to the top of search results. So, smaller web sites and properties should never consider ads until they're already well-established with a product or whatever it is they're doing.
Its not just bloat sometimes ads can even slow down computers or the browser it self if you end up using a somewhat low end pc which would make those people wanna use a ad blocker more just to gain that extra performance
Why would you ever have to watch ads when you have a prime subscription? It’s like renting an apartment and the owner suddenly says, “These walls are now glass unless you pay extra.”
why would you ever have to watch ads when you got cable? why would you ever have to watch ads when you got netflix? why would you ever have to watch ads when you got prime? because they got greedy.
Another note: Based on L Rossman, even if you pay yourube Premium, and download the content, if you haven't connected to the web for 3 days, you cannot play it. So you paid premium, if you go somewhere into the wild and want to have an hour of digital fun, you are screwed.
i wouldn't even mind the amount of ads if they where fun to watch like they used to make them now it's like all ads are targeted at mentally disabled people with hearing problems
Ads were never non-intrusive, though. Heck, personally, the main reason I started using google sites back in 2007 was because they were nice and clean, while the alternatives were swarming with ads all over. Even before all that, ads on TV were always intrusive and anti-climatic (loud af). I don't know about other countries, but here in portugal we used to get 20 minute ad breaks every 20-30 minutes of content, and during christmas it was even worse: 30 minutes of ads every 15-20 minutes. It's why I stopped watching TV back then. Cable TV brought many more channels on that aren't that bad, but either way I only ever watch movies now, and always with a delay so I can fast-forward the ad breaks.
difference between ads on tv and youtube is the fact that atleast ads on tv doesn’t interupt whatever you are watching every 5 minutes, on tv it is atleast on average every 15-30 minutes.
@@DemiCape but they're also longer interruptions. And it depends on the channel. There's a channel here that gives you more and more interruptions the closer you get to the end of a movie. First half (or third) is uninterrupted, then it gets progressively annoying...
While greed is certainly a reason for increased ads it's a little short sighted to think that's the only reason. Advertisers are paying less, much less than they used to be willing to pay. Combined with the fact that (in particular for video streaming) hosting content on the internet has gotten exponentially more expensive.
Without adblock and other apps (I even skip sponsoring and other stuff in videos now) the internet is dangerous and unusable. Luckily I found old HDDs with dozens movies from the past. If the worst happens and adblocks disappear, I will have enough fun to spend my time with. And books. And nature... and other hobbies, listening to music, too. Dozens and dozens of cds... paradise! Like in the 80s and 90s.
@@javaman4584 yep :D Just going through a couple hundreds sound casettes in my parent's house. I am definitely going to keep a few and get a casette player. The sound is still good on them. The Chrome ones were better than the ferrous ones.
I’m certain ad companies have a lot of my personal info, but yet they can’t seem to market ads to me for the life of them. I get ads for seniors, ads for women, ads for little kids, those weird horny ads, skibidi toilet scam ads (so many scammy mobile games). Is it so hard to just advertise me a good product instead of trying to convince me that your bad product IS a good one? I feel like I’m a pretty typical person, but for some reason I get ads fit for everything besides what I am
Wdym I love looking up an app related to a new job or other every day things and being told I may also like to download Genshin Impact on top of it even before I find the actual app I searched by name every single time
More wanting short-term profit instead of caring about the long term health of the business (because when I company gets richer they can cash out for more money)
People used to say "If the product is free, than you're the product." Now we're the product no matter how much we pay.
Amen
Amen
AMEN. I'm going back to older games because of ads, too
@@aiodensghost8645That and MTX
Use ublock
Every ad is an ad for adblockers.
That's a good way to put it
half of the ads I get are literally for adblockers as well. UA-cam will go to war with adblockers, then still allow adblockers to advertise their programs.
@@thepersonwhoasked9475Because the adblockers paying for advertising are the ones which make exceptions for some sites like youtube in exchange for money
@@thepersonwhoasked9475UA-cam belike: how dare you using our earned Money against us
Funny thing, I turned my adblocker off for UA-cam, then got an ad for an adblocker that worked better than the one I was using. Thank you, UA-cam.
I almost forgot about a world with ads. I block them off all devices and apps.
Yup.
I basically do EVERYTHING on firefox, as it allows me to install ublock origin (may the devs be blessed!) on all devices.
Also i think firefox is the only browser which allows to install extensions on android. Correct me if i am wrong
@@no_name4796 I use librewolf which is firefox but it comes with ublock
As far as I know, Kiwi Browser is the only mobile browser with "full" extension support. Some do not work because mobile ≠ desktop, but most I use do. It's made by a solo dev who seems to care about privacy too. I do recommend checking it out.
@@no_name4796 chrome and most chromium based one can have android extensions but not very many devs support android. i think ublock does (idk)
@@no_name4796 you can install any extension avaible for pc chromium based browser on android with kiwi browser
2000: Ads.
2005: More ads.
2010: Tons of ads and they're becoming very annoying.
2015: Unbereable amount ads that distrupt the experience.
2020: Ads of actively harmful products or malware in unbereable amounts. Pay to get rid of them from the service.
2024: Ads are the vast majority of content in any page you go and you get them despite paying for subscription.
"Why do people hate ads so much, they decide to use adblockers? Can't they see that it's hurting us?"
2025 is pure nightmare of ads
I don't think the 2024 situation is much worse than the 1998 situation... It was really, really bad, especially since we didn't have the sophisticated tools we do now. The only reason it ever got better was a) browser improvements that should have been obvious, like "no autoplay" and "no popup", and b) adblock.
To the companies: Hurting you is now the point since you force viruses and scams on people, and even force NSFW on kids while attacking UA-camrs for cursing.
2030: Ads on your cars, on your smart fridge, on your alarm clock.
2040: You must watch 10 ads to open your smart door.
@@thepersonwhoasked9475 Ads on cars are already here. People pay less to put up with an ad painted on their car.
UA-cam is the worst at ads. They disallow swear words because of children laws but encourage ads that have anime girls in 10% clothing.
UA-camrs sponsors often aren't that much better tbh, and they're the ones that should manually review everything thoroughly.
They disallow swearing within the first like 15 seconds of a video. I don't know what videos you're watching but the ones I watched the person swears and they're monetized.
dragon pow literally had a girl giving a blowjob
@@MamaMOB theres this fun fact about youtube as well, the rules dont actually matter. they will only follow the rules if they get bombarded on twitter, or if you dont bring enough traffic to the site. large creators are fairly safe to do most things (aside from genuine crime) while small users will and do struggle when doing almost anything without some unknown guidelines strike or a random fake company claiming their original content as stolen. (and the swearing thing is actually based on frequency not timestamp of language, so if you say it occasionally its fine but saying fuck ten times in a row will ruin ya)
Mobile games... (If you know you know)
Ad blockers are a requirement for browsing the Internet safely. The endless amount of scams and malware ads make it unsafe without one.
its become damn near as essential as even a basic antivirus at this point. all it takes is one usb for a bad virus, or one misclick online even while just trying ot update drivers.
Not really u can easily see if fake
@Demonpumkin if you're used to it, or know what to look for. Yes. Older family members and frienss who know just enough to go looking for drivers have caused me a few headaches this way
ads are still anoying
Some malware infects your computer just by the ad loading on a page. This is getting ridiculous.
quality of the web as a whole is just going downhill
Yeah, you're not wrong
True words
@@EricMurphyxyz Except for this channel! And a few others
Definitely. Great time to get outdoors and experience the world
If only it was only the internet...
Their so called "targeted" ads, have yet to convince me to click a single damn thing.
youtube used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. It showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted.
Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlights" crowd.
@@tsm688 there's definitely a strong presence of those dying from thirst. MxR plays is a prime example. As is anything COUB.
The ads have been tryna sell me on everything from shiny rocks, to dating 60 somethings and long ass cruises.
None of that appeals to me. I only like shiny rocks that cut, or make lasers. Travel is only as far as the nearest food shop, or cluster of trees I can camp in. As for that last one... I'm not dating someone old enough to be my mother.
@@justinpatterson5291 never heard of mxr. never heard of coub.
That’s because your brain is likely fully developed. You aren’t the target audience.
Also they are playing the law of averages: someone, somewhere, will buy it because an ad played.
Ngl adds have never been a factor in me choosing to buy something but they certainly have been a factor in me avoiding several products. Generally the product is worse then the add says it is and if the add doesn’t even look good that’s a good sign it ain’t good. So thanks for the help in saving me money I guess
Imagine, a world without ads!~🌟🌈A world where "tricking people into buying what they don't need" is no longer a legal job title!~
I bet the companies against Ad Blockers get that same thought bubble that lawyer got in The Simpsons then shivers. (You know, the one where its basically paradise)
The USSR.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Capitalism will (probably) survive without ads! If a business needs ads to survive, SKILL ISSUE!~ People will have to sell products and services that customers want and need, instead of maximizing the use of professional liars!
🏴☠️?
@Arjibi
The anti excessive drin king ad and the working guy in Thailand are great
If a website tells me to turn off my adblocker i just stop doing whatever I was doing on it.
I've heard the echo of this sentiment enough to believe that because the drive to mantain or increase profits remains, but more people either block adverts of simply leave the site, the ads on these sites only become more intrusive and increase in volume, making the experience for people who don't use a blocker worse still, and mandating its use and popularity further, renewing the cycle. Mercy for those who still don't block ads...
@@Bellicosy you are referring to the cobra effect
Same.
It sucks when it’s a news site, and I have to turn it off so I can cite it for a project.
@@justinbuddy56use a script blocker for those, the adblock check is part of the page script, so if nothing is allowed to run then you end up with a barebones text only page and no ads or blocker detection
"You probably got an ad before this video"
Me using firefox with ublock origin:
i use librewolf with ublock origin (in librewolf its actually installed by default)
everything based on chromium is a copy of chrome so, ur using a cheap browser, wile firefox has its own code
Crome is trash -- dont use this crap.
until manifest v3 blocks ad blocks, look it up its worrying for the state of the internet, especially since chromium based browsers have such a dominant market share already
Chromium is absolute dogshit
I did a 10 minute presentation about the ethics adblock for my philosophy class last fall. I used a yt clip
I bet you wanted to just be like 'I had a presentation, but my point was just proven' 😂
Marketing works so well, as you can tell!
Should have gotten you an instant A+ lol
even with all the tracking in the world youtube still cant figure out im male.
Taking a selfie and showing google this
woah, google learned you’re transgender before even you knew /s
Finally someone fukin says it. I'm about to break something with the amount of unskipable 1 minute tampon ads I'm getting. I'm gay, I'm male, don't have sisters, where in the world would Google get their "yeah u deffo need this" idea??
@@Chaos_CattusThat’s amazing that you’re literally the farthest from the target of those ads and you’re still getting them
Opposite for my friend.
They keep on getting hemtai ads and softcore pcorn
They're not serving us better ads. They're serving us worse ads.
youtube used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. It showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted.
Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlights" crowd.
Which is why I don’t complete the surveys because they’ll get worse no matter what I do.
Also had to cancel my subscription to regular UA-cam because the price jumped up by over 150% the original price.
I use UA-cam to listen to music, but I’m now strongly considering just buying it from the seller, which I should have done long ago, however, it would easily cost me 800 dollars to get the hours of music I want at the moment.
The most straightforward and true comment I’ve seen on this site
@@initiald975youtube to mp3 converter is your friend
I miss when ads were just a JPEG or GIF banner at the top of a web page. Now they're far more invasive, bothersome, and getting more and more repetitive. Political ads every 2 years, Mint Mobile, Hero Wars, Envoy, some anime GACHA....
I don't know on what places you've browsed, but ads used to be easy worse. In the past there was flash, which allowed for fluent animation, sound and the execution of scripts. Especially the scripts were a problem: back then, you didn't need to go to a website to get infected by malware, if the ad was loaded, you'd already be infected by malware.
Another problem because of scripts in flash were the popover ads which would break their own boundaries and just fill your screen. Now you've got a potentially malicious ad which forced you to click on, unless you closed the site. Sure we still have annoying popovers which ask for a subscription, but at least the close button does what it's supposed to.
Lastly there was sound. Flash supported full-on animation, and it has even been used to make animated shows. So of course ads would play sounds on pages which were normally silent, just to try and grab your attention. In reality, they would only annoy you, because multiple ads would load on a page, all screaming at you all at once..
Although I mourn the death of indie animation using Flash, Adobe just couldn't make it safe. Ads were never good.
Don’t forget about opera GX [ads]
And QR code ads @@GAMER32231
one time I kept getting Mint Mobile ads even with ad blocker on and it was getting really annoying I went to the video itself and disliked it. I don't mind Ryan and all but if your ad is interrupting my watch time every single second then I'm going to get super annoyed and hate that product.
The only ads I've ever been interested for were The Battle Cats and like three music videos (yes, music videos). Everything else was just repetitive slop (don't even get me started on those misleading hypercasual ads)
A tree in a pot cannot grow indefinitely. At some point the tree starts competing with itself for nutrients, the roots choking themself, rotting, and the tree will die.
I remember back in the day sitting through 20 minutes of advertising when networks broadcast movies on TV.
The cycle is repeating.
But then the roots will start shooting out through the pot holes and cracks. At this point the tree will expand beyond its pot, invading other plants' territory
@@AB-wf8ekpeople actually went to the kitchen or loo in that few minutes...
And now we don't waste our time and money, unless you are coonsumer...
@@nicholas_obertit'll absorb that area, choke out, and still die. Gaming is already doing this
Exactly. That's why a tree in a pot needs to be pruned, as well as periodically unpotted, have its roots trimmed, and get repotted with fresh soil.
Corporations have gotten too big if they're an effective monopoly the way UA-cam, Facebook, et al have become.
Monopolies need to be broken up into smaller component areas of business and divested into more competitive new businesses. It's not good for anyone for any one conglomerate entity to get too expansive and control too many things all by itself.
Of all the ads I’ve experienced, I’d say the worst one for me has to be the autoplay ads on fandom. Sometimes I’ll be reading through information for a game, and suddenly the autoplay ad at the top will change, and my perspective will be shifted back to the top of the page. Then I need to scroll back down, find where I was, and hope that doesn’t happen again for the next 2 minutes.
I swear this sucks for a long page!
Fandom is just a horrible sight in general. I hate going on it
Someone checked the sourcecode and Fandom reloads a page after certain amount of time. It's a feature not a bug.
Recommendation: replace "fandom" with "antifandom" in the URL.
Get the indie wiki extension, it redirects away from fandom if a non-fandom wiki exists
"Companies know you better than you do" Shit, didn't know I was a pregnant woman
"Extortion fee". You couldn't have said it better.
First of all, I must specify that I don't pay to stop ads because I don't care about them on Prime. However, concerning extortion for Prime, that couldn't be further from the truth of the matter. You get free Twitch subs each month including the prime gaming rewards. If you use Twitch you'll be technically saving money regardless of paying them. It's literally the only site with ads that I'm okay with.
Ads post borderline soft core on sites that children use and nobody bats an eye.
BUT WHEN I DO IT-
WOAH WOAH HEY NOW...
I can relate...
MONTH LONG FACEBOOK BAN (there are straight up full nudes in your feed that aren't banned)
@@ffwastgotta love the 'you get a temp ban for TOS, but the advertisers can break TOS because they're paying the platform to put their ads on' 😂
Target: (sexualizes children in video ads)
Google: This is fine
EA: (markets gambling games to children)
Google: No problem here
NYT: (posts video about why child labor should be legalized)
Google: Freedom of speech, man
Some Random: (posts a 13 second clip of their kid splashing in a pool)
Google: CHILD ABOOS!!! CALL THE TAKEDOWN BRIGADE! IP BAN FOR LIFE!
(true. WHY TF DO I, A 13 YR OLD GET PORN!?)
this was one of the first times ive seen the internet without an adblock since like 2015 and ive never been so mind blown. how the fuck do people use this shit 😭😭😭
ESPECIALLY on mobile devices!! Where screen space matters even more.
The breaking point for me was when the ads actually stopped me from consuming the content. I clicked on the content not an ad,show me the content not an ad.
This was back in 2006 and we only had dialup out here,I didn't have the data to waste on that intrusive nonsense anyways. I started blocking and never looked back. Now they just want to waste *more* of my time,it's backsliding to the way half of television airtime was just ads. I only have so much time,I'm not wasting it on that.
For me it was getting an ad that was on the side of a website and made noise. As someone with a lot of ads open, I don't want to sort through everything to find out where that weird noise is coming from.
I remember studying web advertising and all of the cool theories shared back on the day on how to engage the viewers with interactive ads and story telling…
It all went to hell once Google automated the process and became a defacto gatekeeper.
The ads nowadays are low quality and only used by small scammy companies. Bigger companies mostly just use YT.
No one is getting value out of this except Google and Meta. The only right thing at this stage would be regulate the online advertising market. Advertising tracking should be made illegal too. Honestly, no consumer likes it or is ok with it.
Welcome to American corporatocracy
@@Piss_Off_Plz Where... 'Our politicians are interchangeable figureheads on the pirate ships of the Corporatocracy Empire"
Interactive ads, reminds me of an ad that I saw quite recently and that my adblocker didn't block. I was reading an article, there was an ad in the middle of it, and the text below it was blurred. It told me to answer the question to read the rest of the article, the question was about the price of something at a company, there were 3 options, when you chose one of them it said that the price is the lowest of the three options. Really interesting idea that I will remember for a while, but I wouldn't want to see more of it because that'd be really annoying.
@@k327dev the one they showed me and it was back in 2012, had like a video with a guy and you could choose dimb but funny things he could do. Another example they showed us where ads where with a guy and a bear. You could write what would happen next. Lastly I remember this funny one from Audi that said something along the line of “the longest ad allowed is 10 seconds. We only need 5 to show how fast our car is”.
I don’t remember much details but back than everyone was excited thinking how ads could be funny, informative and interactive instead of just showing a stupid banner.
Problem is that kind of advertising was expensive and often very specific to the website it was developed for.
Those are still ads but at least they were meant to have some creativity. Instead ads are now just stupid banners based on what an algorithm thinks you like. Almost no human interaction required.
Well there is this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
But its crap.
The worst is that stupid pop-up telling you they care about your data while hoping you'll accept their 100+ partners harvesting your data, just a waste of my time having to uncheck everything all the damn time
exactly! they literally hacked the law! It was meant for us "to be able to disagree" because back in the days cookies just flew into your system without any notification. result of the law : everyone just clicks accept to get rid of the popup. Websites barely give you the option to "disagree all" hoping you just give up and accept. It's parasitic
Ad publishers broke the contract long time ago.
And I was reminded of when we were watching a historical film in class at school and a hard P* ad jumped out. And me and 25 kids were 13 years old.
Man i remember in 2018 i got Durex ads 😂
@@LuigiCotocea trojan ads on pbs
I remember trying to print a page for a school project and an nfsw anime ad SOMEHOW popped up and printed with the pages.
@@SpriteCranberryReal When you got to school what did you do with the nsfw anime?
@@LuigiCotocea Throw it away and use another website. I don’t even watch or touch anything anime-related.
It's gotten pretty disgusting with the nefarious techniques these corporations use. Recently, we decided to try Disney+'s ad-supported tier as we're on a budget. In the first few weeks, we thought "ah, that's not too bad", there was a single 20-30 second ad every 25-30 minutes or so. Then, as time went buy and we got comfortable with using the service, we started getting 1:20 minutes ads in the same time interval. I'm sure this is done on purpose to get people hooked and then make them pay more.
Time to pirate.
Yeah, when you're on a budget, you don't pay for ads, you pirate.
@@SucculentSpaz When you're on a budget? Nah. I wouldn't care if I was a billionaire, I'd still pirate before I _pay_ for ads, just on principle. That's the literal only reason to pay! To get the ideal level of service! If I'm going to pay for the better service and then just get the same service as the free tier anyway, there's no reason to pay at all.
I guess they adapt to amount of content consumed
I noticed something when I made a new instagram account after years. The first 7/10 days or so, I had basically no ads on my feed. Then I suddenly got flooded and stopped using it.
We're becoming ads allergic.
All of those changes has reduced my need to consume stupid content or products.
The web will face the same fate than TV.. a death from its own devolving direction.
TV only died because the web replaced it…
hate to say it but you're right. hard to imagine the web dying but, just like email, the protocol is becoming less and less useful because it's both so incredibly centrally-owned and organized yet wholly spam-ridden.
the upshot is we don't need to invent a new medium, just a new protocol.
@@tsm688 Unless there’s a replacement, it won’t die. Too many people are dependent on the web to go back.
@@NotAdachiPeople I mean in the sense that email "died". It's not possible for people to set up email servers any more - they'll be ignored by the commercial servers - and any communities which existed in it as a medium have been sandpapered out of existence by the endless attacks on it from all sides.
@@tsm688
What could be defense features for new mail-like system?
these ads are getting worse and longer than television commercials 😭
youtube tried to give me a 30 minute ad. this website sucks
@@lwfawnAdblock needed
@@lwfawn30 mins? I've had a full 2 hr documentary as ad once 😂😂
Longest I got was like 55 mins I think
@@funplayer05.1 was it skippable?
In some cases, you literally can't use website without ad block because they put an overlay in front of the download button that redirects to another site.
back in 1998 or so, shady download sites were already like that... there were whole long lists of instructions to follow before you were allowed to download something... "click this, then this, then this, then vote for me, and the download will unlock"
@tsm688 that must have kept going for awhile because I was born around then and I remember trying those.
I could never get it to work, always got stuck with one of the social media sites not registering the like or something. Good thing too since there was probably just a virus behind that wall.
@@wrathofainz intentionally unreliable to farm more and more likes or clicks or whatever
@@wrathofainz
Close out of the site, click again and it'll redirect you.
What's worse is that some sites block the element you tried to click before, so you need to refresh.
Even the FBI recommends everyone to use adblockers
Ads are propaganda, always have been.
In croatia/yugoslavia TV ads, commercials were called EPP
Economic propaganda programme. There was always a block of it after the main evening news show. That was just plain PPP political propaganda programme
The word "advertisement" was invented as a euphemism for propaganda. So quite literally, yes.
no, ads are propaganda, a blight, a plague, an obstruction, an obstacle and a VERY, VERY potent annoyance.
How is it propaganda if someone is just trying to show you their business or company to see if you want to buy something?
@@Grand-Theft-Autism information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a cause or point of view.
Another thing that I would like to add to your very good video: people don't show their lives on IG; Facebook, or TikTok. They advertise it. They are so formatted that they no longer know how to communicate or express themselves.
Advertisers: _"How are we supposed to make money?"_
By making products people want to buy. The entire reason people started subscribing to cable TV in the early 1980s was to GET AWAY from advertising. Cable TV became an ad-infested wasteland, thanks to advertising and now you want to repeat that mistake on the Internet.
Also, I'M the one paying for this Internet connection on MY computer. That means I get to choose what I'll put up with on it. If you had been happy with small, banner ads, then Internet advertising might have worked. But you guys abused the HELL out it, with pop-ups, pop-unders and full-page, seizure-inducing flashing images, and NOW you want full-screen, un-skippable video that goes on for minutes at a time? LOL, no. It's ad blocking time. So here we are.
when there are literally no consequences for lies, scams & even outright malware in ads (& just on the internet in general), there is no incentive for companies to even consider the interests of regular people. also, they have practical monopolies so there is even more incentive to never innovate again; no reason for them to build a better product.
It will never get better as long as ad-providers like Google are not held legally responsible.
Google(alphabet) is a DARPA corporation. Just like microsoft. They will never face govt. consequences because they are the govt.
I don't use UA-cam on my phone because ads are exhausting. You get an ad every 5 thumbnails when scrolling.
Mine's every 2....and the ads are bigger than the videos. Maximize those accidental clicks. They were far more sensitive to touch and rotation, as well. A brush of clothing won't change the video, but it sure will open those dopey ads. Video won't rotate worth a 💩 but the ads skip button bounced all over the place if the phone wasn't in full upright or side position. Insanity.
Try checking out something called ReVanced, you can use it to edit an APK of the UA-cam app with patches that remove ads. It also has a lot of other nice features.
Edit: also if you're phone is rooted, you don't even have to patch a separate APK, I believe you can just patch the app directly.
if you use android, consider getting youtube revanced. it comes with adblock, sponsorblock, background playback and many more.
I've had several instances where I'll skip an ad and it'll just *immediately* give me two more, usually without the option to skip. It's actually just ridiculous.
UA-cam Revanced for mobile. Look into it.
Any time I go to my aunt house and I get the same feeling from cable TV why would you pay a premium to watch ads.
Here are the two main reasons why cable TV has ads:
1. The ever-increasing royalty fees that studios charge to the cable networks to broadcast their shows and movies; and
2. Bloat, which afflicts both the cable networks and the studios. Bloat means an excessive percentage of administrators vs. actually productive workers.
These two reasons feed off each other: the more administrative bloat the cable TV networks and the studios have, the more money they need to make. This bloat one-two punch is what necessitates increases in cable TV commercials over time.
Someone made a series of charts that illustrate a bureaucracy's lifecycle. Here are the stages of said lifecycle: 1. Launch 2. Growth 3. Maturity 4. Bloat 5. Budget Cuts 6. Failure/Implosion
*Launch:* Tight budgets, modest pay, minimal benefits, high camaraderie
*Growth:* rapid growth in program and staffing; morale high
*Maturity:* "mission creep", union & admin gain politcal power; debts solidify, infighting
*Bloat:* budget is flat but admin costs rise; gaming the system and fraud are rife
*Budget Cuts:* Program abandoned as focus shifts to protecting budget and staff pay/benefits
*Failure/Implosion:* the competent retire leaving the incompetent in command; morale low, chaos and failure the norm; organizational implosion
you prob got an ad before this vid
me using revanced:
Yessir
I’m Belarusian, but I watch some Russian-language channels. After UA-cam disabled monetization for Russia, a major part of their viewers received an ad-free experience. Basically, every Russian UA-camr now uses Boosty (a Russian government-backed big tech product), which serves as an alternative to Patreon (since it’s blocked) and accepts Russian cards. So, in some places, this shift has already occurred.
Interesting, I didn't know that!
@@constantineandriyanov8200 Yes, but I was speaking generally about the entire Russian UA-cam platform. Sometimes greed is so significant that even opposition figures are willing to use Boosty. Btw your name and surname are literally the same as those of a Russian UA-camr I used to watch in the past.
The absolute benefit on living in US sanctioned countries. Basically you're like have YT premium without having to pay anything
@@constantineandriyanov8200 Russia sucks big time, lol
Me setting my vpn to russia
On mobile me and my friends nonstop get ads about weird ai chatbots that straight up advertise nsfw material
If you're willing to download something to your phone, look up youtube revanced. Blocks all the ads and I haven't gotten any (aside from creator-made sponsors, which revanced can also detect and auto-skip) in so long. One caveat I've found is that sometimes it takes a while for the videos to actually load and you'll just have a blank screen. I still think it's worth it though.
purely for research purposes, what's the site called?
seriously tho kids use this site as we are all always being reminded by demonitization.
My pihole is perfect for news sites. Unfortunately I can't block UA-cam ads though - but it's still blocking 25% of all DNS requests.
why not use it along with ublock?
ublock?
@@qlx-iprobably on iphone
he said pihole@@qlx-i
You need a plug-in for your browser and a different app for your phone
So true. If you want me to not block your ad, at least curate the damn things instead of hoeing out for everyone that gives you money
A lot of people don't even know there are ads block extensions. (Most of my IT professors don't have adblock install on their browsers). Google going war with adblockers only made them more popular than ever.
Thanks Streisand Effect
Company: "Please don't use an adblocker."
People: "Wait, you can block ads?"
People: [installs ad blockers]
Same thing happened when kids were told not to pirate content. They were taught that they can get content for free and that it's easy
I have a friend that SUPPORTS ADS, and is a google fanboy. I still don’t understand why. He believes that google is a service that is worth giving data to for their service. I would agree, if it weren’t for the fact that google is a monopoly and doesn’t need anymore of our money
Also google slowing down PCs with ad blocker does not really work, because people will assume they are getting bad internet or something is wrong with the PC they are using
Now make sense, i was watching cartoons on streams and it was a bit slow 😂
@@paradoxzee6834 The number of times I've been asked to fix someone's internet when it's just a slow-ass site is ridiculous...
The only valid attitude in response is "i do not consent to ads or privacy violations." I block all ads, I've switched carriers, OS, anything trying to push this on me. I got belligerent with it.
I genuinely cannot believe the sad reality of paying over a grand for a phone just to get built in ads and scammy bloatware
@@mizuukki ads on mobile is nuts, my sister got a phone, installed some app, and she gets an ad when she logs in, and i couldn't locate app until now
Somewhere around 2003 I bought a 1982 Honda CB900f. It was really cool but in very bad shape. I was amazed to find a website that someone had poured dozens of hours of effort into, giving detailed instructions on how to rebuild carburetors and other such things on just that kind of bike. I needed help beyond the repair manual and there it was for free. All the person who made the site wanted was a chance to tell people to read the bible. To be honest, I didn't do any extra bible reading, but I didn't at all mind seeing that this guy wanted me to. Anyway, just a story about ye olde days.
Ads have gotten out of hand. These companies really think that 2 minutes per hour of Ads is not enough, they want you to consume ad content more and more. There will always be adblockers, but the moment they succeed in removing Adblockers, whether by law or by somehow outsmarting the extensions, is the moment that they lose business.
I still remember when youtube videos had banner ads that coukd be closed instead of full fledged 30 second unskippable ones
to be fair, we used to need pop up blockers back in the day, but yeah the ads nowadays on corporate owned websites are absolutely ridiculous
used to? they never stopped.
@@tsm688 Yeah but browsers can handle those on their own nowadays.
Brave + any additionnal adblocker plugin + "sponsorblock" plugin(to block sponsored parts of YT videos) + Remove EVERY google service = Relative peace on internet
if you like brave don't add more extensions. Choose between brave shields or ublock
@@lussor1 I never seen any issues while having both, so i'll stay like that
That might change for you in a few months, after they added manifest v3 (which is next month) to the chromium engine, brave will be forced to adapt after some months have passed to keep up with the latest version of the engine. Breaking plugins like adblockers etc. Time to switch to FF or any other non chromium based browser.
@@mical-9066is it possible for chromium browsers to just change that part of the source code or will it be like when flash was killed?
UA-cam is a google service
youtube waited until all the record shops were put out of business then they pulled the advert and premium stunt.
Adaway, UA-cam Revanced, Bypass Paywalls, Ublock origin, and Sponsor Skip rock. Havent seen an ad in ages
Commenting on this to get notifs on this.
@@sallyparty1978 yeah me too
Leaving a comment for future reference
Replying to remind those two repliers
@@khilo705 ty
The ads are not used as ads anymore.
They're used as blockers to normal content.
And how do you get to see the normal content?
With monthly payment of course!
The thing is even when i ignored all the tracking and did not care about any internet privacy the ads sucked. And when i say i have literally NEVER seen an ad that showed something i would want to purchase i mean it.
ads don't promote products as much as they promote brands. they wanna brainwash you so that, if & when you are in the market for life insurance or whatever, you default to their cringey jingle & be a good little capitalist cog.
Exactly.
yes, but since you're on this channel, you're not one of the gullible people who inhale everything the internet throws at them. I'd say that 90 percent of the viewership here has above average knowledge regarding technology and the web in general. The "normies" are on a whole different level, unfortunately.
I've seen some! Not very often, but I was looking up fiber optic networking once and got an ad for a store that sells all that stuff pretty cheap. That's memorable because it's the ONLY time it ever happened.
UA-cam used to be incredibly sophisticated at serving ads. It would serve me chip datasheets because it knew I was an electronics hobbyist. I ended up not getting it, but because it was actually relevant to problems i had at the time, I at least considered it... It also showed me a comic it thought I'd be interested in reading, and I actually was, the first and only time in 40 years of existence an ad actually showed me anything I wanted.
Now, in the words of google's own employees, there's exactly two brackets of ads: the "home furnishings" crowd and the "tactical flashlight" crowd. Their ads suck because they stopped targeting and stopped vetting.
Ads are quite literally ruining the world.
Ad blockers on my router don't work for YT on my TV, even with a VPN. But at some point YT just gives up and stops showing ads. I haven't seen one on the TV app in nearly a month.
Adblocker on routers block ad domains, but YT ads are loaded from same domains as regular videos. So you have either buy a Premium or scan every single YT request in MITM style.
"You probably got an ad before this video."
Nope, because I've been using ad blockers since pretty much the day they came out. I don't see 95% of the ads on the internet.
I got an ad before watching this video. Ironic.
Called it
And the worst thing is: the creator of the video basically making you click the video and watch the ad, sees basically none of the profits
Solution, pirate everything. Content block everything. Give money only to the smaller people like indie studios
what do you mean by pirate everything?
Add pollution = more pollution. As if we need more of that already 🤦♂
Love your content 💯
I can't remember the last time an ad actually made me want to buy something.
In fact if an ad is particularly annoying, it makes me NOT want whatever its selling.
i am boycotting google fi because their ad was too loud lol
0:02 no i didnt
Me neither
Me Neither
Me Neither
I did
Sam
3:10 Even before the FBI made this announcement, the CIA and NSA are requiring (not recommending, you NEED TO) agencies to use adblockers.
Internet without adablock is awful
Edit:164likes ! Thks you guys
it's unbearable
I can’t use it. Nothing loads. Let’s face it, ads brake stuff.
"Please disable adblock to access the content"
Stopped watching TV long ago, because of adds and... all the 💩on there.
I have become very selective in my viewings and readings.
@@addy7445 Please disable adblock to access our brainwashing.
Amazon Prime: Thank you to T-Mobile for making this show ad free after these messages.
*Plays 2 ads*
Wait a second!
The fact that some bank websites prevent you from completing a transaction until you disable your ad blockers(website) or bank apps displaying ads while in the middle of a transaction(mobile apps)...
Oh man. Even Wells Fargo doesn’t do that to my family. And they have a bad reputation!!
Going without adblocker in modern internet is like disabling Gellar field.
All the softcore hentai in ads does feel vaguely Slaanesh-ish
I've been running a script blocker and adblocker for over 15yrs now. Script blocker just because I don't want my privacy violated, which that in itself is a law violation which the FBI, FTC, FCC can crack down on as the source or means of the violation puts it their jurisdiction.
They don't track you, they track an endpoint. It's not your privacy, they don't know who you are unless you create an account.
They know who you are through fingerprinting.
Whichever company dares to show me ads, I would specifically not buy any products from that company.
Suppose I get an ad for abc toothpaste, I would boycott abc toothpaste and buy xyz toothpaste instead.
After manifest v3, I would either use firefox, brave browser if they still have the built in adblock or make a dns wide adblock or even go as far as making a kernel level adblock.
if you do end up doing that kernel level adblock hmu
Imagine having a bad connection and waiting for the trinity of death to load : Ads, trackers and JS.... for a static page...
That was a big part of it for me,I discovered blockers on dialup.
On most sites the content just gets in the way of the ads. It's a literal hellscape without an adblock now.
Only the internet on smartphones is worse,
I had a hard time switching from chrome to anything because of synchronization, but once I decided and found a browser with extension support, I was finally able to use the internet normally, without overlapping garbage on half of a 6 inch screen
Ads are the reason I moved from iOS to Android (Which has Vanced) and tbf It feels better not seeing ads.
If the market is saturated, the companies are looking for a new color.
iOS also has an app. The first word of is name is video, the second word is lite
Revanced is a godsend, original yt app is just full of weird ass ads
@@Villager_UI also refuse to pay for a service that used to be on an app for free. Like playing the video in the background.
Ads are okay if they are high quality, meaning no explicit content and no scam and made by a professional team. It would also be okay if the ads were few, since then it would make the value of a single ad higher. I think Google and all the ad providers should be held LIABLE for any ads that are obvious scams or contain explicit content.
I do not believe in ads, subscription models, and the like. I believe in one-time paywalls where all content is behind a paywall and requires payment.
When you're selling junk, not only are you trying to spend as little as possible on ads, your cheap ads also naturally act as a filter for attracting people who have low discernment for quality.
wonder what's gonna happen if someone is going to buy something like 10,000 "orange youtube" ads
There is one type of ad i really hate: fake continue buttons. Once, i saw an ad that was a large START button, but in the corner there was a small button that said ✅ continue to search. WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE FOOLING??
its made to look obvious on purpose, they want grandma and grandpa who dont actually know better to click because if you're dumb enough to click on the bright green button that doesn't match the site at all, you're almost certain to fall for the inevitable call from the "microsoft security team" or "amazon checking team" they want smart people to scoff and walk away while the rest are piggy banks in the scammers hands
your grandma
0:24 "Every little personal detail of your life is now being tracked by giant internet conglomerates to serve you better ads" Ironically, this makes me want to block them even more.
I don't think they even work. I've never seen an add that might be relevant to me. Only scams or temu adds
UA-cam allowing ads with "almost" no clothing: Hey watch this!
UA-cam when someone talks about how bad are ads showing the ads: HOW DARE YOU!!!!! AGE RESTRICTION
thank god for ublock origin
One thing that’s super annoying, is that on the mobile version of UA-cam, the ads are placed in a way where they’re SUPER easy to tap accidentally. I’ve accidentally opened so many ads just by accidentally rotating my phone and tapping the ad space at the wrong time.
So much truth in only 10 minutes...
Here's the thing about ads, and the people who defend them, from the perspective of someone who has worked in internet advertising and SEO.
Internet ads are meant to be a supplemental source of income, that companies or individuals should be using to aid in the day-to-day operations of a website. Something to help pay for the servers, or the domain name, etc. **If you have a business and find that advertisements are your primary source of income, you have a fundamentally flawed business model.**
Ads are also DISASTEROUS for SEO, ironically enough. Ads add bloat and page shift, which is a HUGE factor in performance in search engines. Google actually *favors* ad-free pages when it comes to weighing who goes to the top of search results. So, smaller web sites and properties should never consider ads until they're already well-established with a product or whatever it is they're doing.
Its not just bloat sometimes ads can even slow down computers or the browser it self if you end up using a somewhat low end pc which would make those people wanna use a ad blocker more just to gain that extra performance
Why would you ever have to watch ads when you have a prime subscription? It’s like renting an apartment and the owner suddenly says, “These walls are now glass unless you pay extra.”
why would you ever have to watch ads when you got cable?
why would you ever have to watch ads when you got netflix?
why would you ever have to watch ads when you got prime?
because they got greedy.
We be blocking ads with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Another note: Based on L Rossman, even if you pay yourube Premium, and download the content, if you haven't connected to the web for 3 days, you cannot play it. So you paid premium, if you go somewhere into the wild and want to have an hour of digital fun, you are screwed.
1:25 ha ha, me sitting on someone else's computer... I am like "wooow, the internet is nasty place" 😂
i wouldn't even mind the amount of ads if they where fun to watch like they used to make them now it's like all ads are targeted at mentally disabled people with hearing problems
If the FBI recommended Adblock, then companies can’t say AdBlocker? NOT ALLOWED ON THIS WEBSITE. if the government literally said use Adblock
Ads were never non-intrusive, though. Heck, personally, the main reason I started using google sites back in 2007 was because they were nice and clean, while the alternatives were swarming with ads all over.
Even before all that, ads on TV were always intrusive and anti-climatic (loud af). I don't know about other countries, but here in portugal we used to get 20 minute ad breaks every 20-30 minutes of content, and during christmas it was even worse: 30 minutes of ads every 15-20 minutes. It's why I stopped watching TV back then.
Cable TV brought many more channels on that aren't that bad, but either way I only ever watch movies now, and always with a delay so I can fast-forward the ad breaks.
difference between ads on tv and youtube is the fact that atleast ads on tv doesn’t interupt whatever you are watching every 5 minutes, on tv it is atleast on average every 15-30 minutes.
@@DemiCape but they're also longer interruptions.
And it depends on the channel. There's a channel here that gives you more and more interruptions the closer you get to the end of a movie. First half (or third) is uninterrupted, then it gets progressively annoying...
While greed is certainly a reason for increased ads it's a little short sighted to think that's the only reason. Advertisers are paying less, much less than they used to be willing to pay. Combined with the fact that (in particular for video streaming) hosting content on the internet has gotten exponentially more expensive.
Every day, running away from society and hiding out in a cabin in the woods seems like a better and better idea.
I'm actually thinking about making a list of all the products I see advertised and will never buy. Perhaps this list will become a trend.
Without adblock and other apps (I even skip sponsoring and other stuff in videos now) the internet is dangerous and unusable. Luckily I found old HDDs with dozens movies from the past. If the worst happens and adblocks disappear, I will have enough fun to spend my time with. And books. And nature... and other hobbies, listening to music, too. Dozens and dozens of cds... paradise! Like in the 80s and 90s.
You mean there's another world... outside?
@@javaman4584 yep :D Just going through a couple hundreds sound casettes in my parent's house. I am definitely going to keep a few and get a casette player. The sound is still good on them. The Chrome ones were better than the ferrous ones.
wish now i never got the internet waste of time and money i find i do listen to more records than i did when there were less adverts on the internet
I’m certain ad companies have a lot of my personal info, but yet they can’t seem to market ads to me for the life of them. I get ads for seniors, ads for women, ads for little kids, those weird horny ads, skibidi toilet scam ads (so many scammy mobile games). Is it so hard to just advertise me a good product instead of trying to convince me that your bad product IS a good one? I feel like I’m a pretty typical person, but for some reason I get ads fit for everything besides what I am
Blocked since install
808,596 (11%)
That is around 2000$ worth of ads blocked, 10x for the cost for purchasing these ads.
I have blocked 2 million ads
I'm up to 897,698 since install. Worth
983,253 (5%)
This was after I had to reinstall Windows to reset the registry this year because School Days HQ was being a pain to install
This s**t is crazy. Even Google offers sponsored apps on their own store. I am proud of pirating everything again :D
Wdym I love looking up an app related to a new job or other every day things and being told I may also like to download Genshin Impact on top of it even before I find the actual app I searched by name every single time
Sponsered apps that do one little thing like read a qr code except they are cluttered by even MORE ads.
Dang i got an add before the video
Should have used my pc with an add block and sponsorblock instead of my phone
use revanced if ur on android
Shoulda
How do you not have ads blocked on your phone
@@PhenomRom idk tell me how to do it if you know
Same lol
metal gear reference :youtube adds:"Why wont you DIE" me:"addblocker son"
Video Idea:make a video on busting linux myths
Which depends on the linux distro and how you run it. It sure isn't idiot proof.
What sort of myths?
6:26 the main lesson of the video is that shareholders are stupid
More wanting short-term profit instead of caring about the long term health of the business (because when I company gets richer they can cash out for more money)
Thank Sundar Pachai for making it worse in recent years.
As an russian, i see this as an absolute win