there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites - eviltoast
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    1 month ago

    Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.

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      1 month ago

      Especially when creators find interesting ways to work them in, which is pretty often, in my experience. They’re the one type of ad that doesn’t annoy me.

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        1 month ago

        I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse than in YouTube/etc videos.

        I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

        It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of “sponsored” results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

        It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.