I wonder though if pressing “skip” is a good idea in terms of privacy / not giving them what they want. I don’t think this was implemented for our “convienience” and rather as yet another manipulation technique.

Just some ideas what I assume they achieve by this:

• By pressing it you have to divert your attention towards the ad, even if it is just for a short time.

• You might unintentionally signal your preferences which could be used for profile enrichment

• You also provide information, that you are still actively at the device an watching (I assume ad providers have more interest on having more/longer ads on content that is actively watched)

There is a stargate on the lake

They like to annoy future programmers by letting them do binary tree insertion steps manually on paper. They also like to destroy your self confidence by telling you if you ever come up with an algorithm it is likely trash and someone else invented a better one 50 years ago.

Now I went down a rabbit hole reading about aleph and tree(3). I did not even study math why do I do this to myself…