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[theonedoc@tech.lgbt]

@cmconseils hmm or rather I block YouTubes ads and if one slips through and is an ad for a legit product/service and not some AI, stocks or crypto scam I make sure to not buy that product/service.

Do your part to make Alphabet/Google as little money as possible.

[fogti@chaos.social]

@cmconseils kinda like an outbidding contest of money for attention.

[springdiesel@spore.social]

@cmconseils

@murderbotbot do the one about the company being a vending machine. It's exactly like that.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils ublock origin gang rise up

[turbulent@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Wait till you hear about publishers of scientific journals

[murderbotbot@wandering.shop]

@springdiesel Ratthi poked absently at the food left on his plate, then slid it over to Arada so she could finish it off. “That solid-state screen interface, I’ve seen those in historical displays.”

[springdiesel@spore.social]

Yeah I didn't think that would work.

Found it.

"The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop."

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@cmconseils yeah but I have had ublock installed for years now lol I ain't putting up with that

[retreival9096@hachyderm.io]

@cmconseils

But (soon if not now) companies can pay *more* to show ads to people who pay not to see them.

[nske@ravenation.club]

@cmconseils What a sales pitch "So our advert will be seen by people with lots of disposable income?" "LOL no definitely not them, they've opted out!"

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils yes and the next step is netflix, where companies pay to show ads and we pay to see those ads

[pare@kamu.social]

@cmconseils It’s good to be the middleman with ad selling services.

[random_sapiens@mastodon-belgium.be]

@cmconseils or we install Ublock origin and tell all the techbro's to go f*** themselves

[stevenaleach@universeodon.com]

@cmconseils Imaging what the internet would be like without ad blockers. Wow. That would literally mean no YouTube.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@cmconseils Or we use an ad blocker.

[numodular@c.im]

@cmconseils Yeah, it's not OURtube.

Yours,
Capitalism

[stevenaleach@universeodon.com]

@cmconseils Theory: Ad Blockers are a good thing for the advertising industry, YouTube included, because it removes us -- the folks who respond negatively to ads (thus bad for the company/brand/service if we see or hear them, better off that we *might* see the product on a shelf without already hating it) from the mix while keeping things seamless - we can share links to content with others and view links to content they send us - but we just never realize or think about the fact that "everyone else" is seeing (and maybe even paying attention to) ads inserted. Everyone that it offends has opted out, and those that haven't have gotten used to it, some might even enjoy it, and many actually pay attention to the ads as if they were actual content.

[jonathangulbrandsen@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils @lisamelton YouTube Premium pays 55% of its revenue to creators directly.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

Welcome to neoliberal capitalism!

[liquidlamp@hachyderm.io]

@renardboy @Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils add sponsorblock as well. It uses community notes to auto skip the YouTuber ad reads and promos.

Its amazing how well it works. Right after any big youtuber releases a video, it skips over them. Even smaller youtubers will ad skip within a few minutes of release, and if not, the plugin let's you easy annotate the start - stop to help others.