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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

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What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

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I don’t think adblockers existed in 2004 but ok. Extensions might have been a brand new concept…
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  lol yes they did.
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    The first one I’ve ever heard of was ad block plus, which initially released October 23, 2005.
    
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus
    
    But sure I’m sure you’ve been using adblockers since 1992
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      10 seconds of googling:
      
      https://adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blocking-history.html
      
      i mean the fact its called adblock plus is kind of a give away that it probably wasnt the first

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