I have never once bought something from a youtube ad but I have decided not to buy something because I saw it in a youtube ad.
We can all agree on this
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You guys are seeing ads?
zimy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s wild that shit like this gets so many upvotes, I would have assumed the average lemmy user would be a bit more technologically inclined.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I either dont see ads or dont see the video. I wasted too much time of my life either watching or hearing ads.
If i ever remember a jingle or some bs, i imediately boycott the brand. Die in hell coca cola.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same, honestly its best to treat any adverts that cross your field of vision as a personal attack and act accordingly.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hell yes brother/sister.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t matter, the worm is in your brain, and you know or are reminded the product exists. That’s all they’re aiming for.
Also, a lot of people think they’re immune to advertising. No one is. The only protection is never seeing them.
On the very rare occasion I choose to watch some media with an ad I can’t skip, I mute the volume and put my hand over my eyes, so I can just see a corner of the screen and know when it’s over.
cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Correct, you won’t remember the time you got interrupted by an ad. You will however remember the name brand compared to no brand when you see them, and are already conditioned to associate brand with quality and worth.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I associate it with annoyance and will only consider it after research.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or even if you do remember the brand and decide you’ll never buy it, the product category is in your brain. Don’t buy Milwaulke and instead save money on a Ryobi? Same company.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Had to put up with ads this past week since the over decade old AIO I was using in my PC apparently had most of the liquid evaporate out (when I fully removed it I sloshed it around and it sounded like there was maybe a tablespoon of liquid in it 😳). The one that pissed me off the most was the political ad claiming 1776AB will hurt small businesses. I look up the bill, and one of the first fucking lines of it says that small businesses under a certain number of employees are EXEMPT FROM THE CHANGES. Always look who’s paying for the ads: A bunch of fucking big corporate bitches.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This story does not compute over here. Why do you have to put up with ADS when your cooler breaks?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Watching shit on TV instead of through a browser with an adblocker.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is precisely why I will never ever, everfuckingever get/buy/use Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Their fucking ads are everywhere, and they’re always “oh we’re so quriky, lulzzor emu so random” millenial fucking cringe humor.
freudian_slop@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The average consumer doesn’t know that AdBlocker exist.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I wonder what “average” means under the new federally controlled “bell curves”.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Someone doesn’t have skip sponsor Firefox plugin
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
But if everyone did, in fact, agree on this, ads would be detrimental to every company’s survival and they’d stop making them. I guess even though people hate ads interrupting their media consumption, they still work.
MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
CEO: Got it. More ads in products.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
CEOs use ads because ads work. You might hate them, but they work.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I generally go anti-brand. Not Tide but something soap like not connected to the Tide company. Apply this logic to all “brands”. Brands have become too big, too meaningless and too expensive for really no added value except a “comfortably superior feeling”.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
But you HAVE heard of me
motruck@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hate it all you want as long as you keep using it. That’s the goal.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think this meme is talking about ad inserts and not YT…
BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would ads interrupt your video? I would just watch it locally where it was edited and finished.
Jumi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If I see an ad I won’t buy it
Murse@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
…any tricks to block youtube ads on a work computer that absolutely can’t have anything installed on it?
Youtube and music.youtube are a good source of music at work, so far the best I got it to to skip forward then back until ads stop. Works, but requires active input.
katze@lemmy.4d2.org 2 weeks ago
Download the music at home with yt-dlp, put it on USB and bring the USB to work.
ackthxbye@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s easiest to bring your own player or RaspberryPi and listen locally.
But if you absolutely insist on streaming to your work PC you can always run a VM in your browser: dev.to/…/run-a-virtual-machine-in-your-browser-2k…
Murse@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Can’t connect any private devices.
VM… maybe? I’m not familiar with this at all - of there’s any potential for data compromise, it’ll be a no-go. The comps we’re using need to be HIPAA compliant, and I’m guessing this is not, but if there’s potential here, it’s worth exploring.
I’ll do some homework on how these work, and if it looks good to my monkey brain, I’ll bounce it off IT (who works very closely with legal - they DO NOT fuck around with HIPAA). If I get the official green light from them, this might be the winner.
unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you’re network is, but it’d be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I’ve got 3 raspberry pi’s I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they’re searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that’s an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It’s annoying they’re so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn’t say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
Murse@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Oh, definitely no sneaking. Or connection of personal devices of any kind. The comps in question need to be HIPAA compliant, so I’m limited to the tools that are built into Windows 11, and Edge/Chrome.
Or, using a setup that’s totally separate from it, like a Bluetooth speaker paired with a phone. …but my last speaker wandered away from my workstation, so I’d prefer to just use the hardware that’s already there.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Sorry, no idea how to fix that, short of spending money. But if you ever end up considering doing that, I’d like to suggest buying music rather than paying for a subscription like YouTube premium or Spotify etc.
Cum_Rag@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Lol enshitification doesn’t care if you’re mad,
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
TBH I disagree about using memes that promote a maga chud.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But with Hello Fresh you get meals delivered direct to your door!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You know what really grinds my gears?
Airplanes with those banners that they tow…at the fucking beach.
Im out here in the sun trying to relax and enjoy the day when this loud ass fucking single engine prop plane has to fly low and slow right across the beach to tell me about some personal injury lawyer or some used car dealership
Absolutely guarantees I will not patronize their business.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am disgusted its even allowed, it’s a complete waste of everything involved.