Comment on Why so many people get triggered about ads nowadays?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
90% of the internet has always had ads
I very clearly remember a time when only a handful of websites actually had ads on them and having an ad blocker wasn’t a straight up requirement to stem the tide of popups and banners.
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Youtube before Google bought it was pretty nice. A little add taking up a square in the upper right corner, just above recommended videos, and I think that was about it. Nowadays it’s completely impossibly to watch YouTube without ad blockers or premium subscription.
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
… and you can’t even remove ads from your own channel. As a content creator I was happy to find a “disable advertisements” option in the settings menu - my channel isn’t monetized anyway, so getting rid of those super intrusive ads sounded like a win/win situation.
Turns out this only disables “interest based” ads so my viewers still get shoved ads down their throats, just that those are entirely random now instead of custom-tailored towards their interests. Thanks, youtube - very helpful and exactly what I wanted. /s
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
yeah, i dont know what id do without adblock on youtube.
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
And that is really sad. In the early days, I disabled my ad blocker for Youtube, as I tend to do with the websites I enjoy, but evidently I’ve had to re-enable it since to keep my sanity.
As so many others, I don’t have a problem with passive or “docile” ads, but I do have a vendetta against intrusive anti-user experiences, which has led me to block ads and other kinds of annoyances /intrusions per default.
The whole “need for more aggressive ads as result of adblockers” is a self fulfilling prophecy.
Mane25@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Just be careful because just because ads aren’t intrusive doesn’t mean they don’t track you. If ads were hosted locally on a website and not part of a big ad network then ad-blockers would be pretty ineffective anyway.
BilboTBaggin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For even more blocking there’s a plugin called sponsorblock. It automatically skips marked sponsor segments in videos. The segments are user submitted so not all videos have em but it’s so great!