As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video - eviltoast
  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Youtube Ads used to be for pizza restaurants and lawnmowers.

    Now they want me to join a fucking cult that worships alphabeta-blocking milkshakes.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      8 months ago

      I was getting ads for a very blatant scam. They used extremely well known buzzwords for it too, it’s actually embarrassing that it could have passed even automated screening.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      Good point. The ad quality has dropped by so much, hard to imagine ads this bad are possible. Really shitty mobile games are a huge part of that advertisement. A lot of stuff that just seems scam my too.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I constantly see an ad by zeiss (which is a german company but they’re in california) and I don’t even know what they produce but I swear to God I’ll never get a Zeiss product. An acquaintance worked with them for a while and I have trouble taking him seriously now. (They’re pretty american in that way but they’re also very german)

        I fucking hate zeiss after this ad.

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      8 months ago

      I watch one set of ads. As soon as the second ad starts I download the video and fuck youtube.