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?

  • kenkenken@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    An idea for YouTube: make a way to watch ads separately and earn minutes, and then to spend earned minutes on watching actual videos without ads, lol.

    • Fisk400@feddit.nu
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      6 months ago

      So that you can leave ads running on your computer while you go do other stuff? Doesn’t seem like a good deal for Google.

      • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        It didn’t work out so well for Perk when they paid you to watch ads. But then again I was making $100 a week from my phone farm back in the day. Had 30 phones earning points at a time.

    • Jilanico@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Don’t give them ideas. If they had a reasonable number of ads, it wouldn’t be a problem, but they are absolutely out of control.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s like ad, four tiktok “shorts”, carousel of unrelated games, another ad, actual video, repeat

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The ad industry is truly one of the most reprehensible and insidious things humans have ever invited unto themselves. It’s beyond dystopian how much of our ability to move through the world is now contingent on us allowing our brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

    I believe conspiracism is the root of all evil. But ads are gaining on conspiracism like they’re Usain Bolt being chased by an angry bee.

    I have to hand it to those soulless fucking devils though, they might have pulled off one of the most brazen but successful mindfucks I’ve ever seen: they convinced lots of people that seeing ads about topics they were interested in was some sort of concession from the ad industry, like they were begrudgingly implementing measures to make ads “relevant” to us, and that we were somehow gaming the system because of it. It was a “win” for us to have the ads being served into our eyeballs and ears be tailor-made for us. “I’m so sick of seeing ads for products I don’t even care about! I wish there was a way to make the ads be relevant to ME” said no cunt ever. But they managed to convinced us that everyone else was saying that, and that we’d won some sort of victory against them to have their advertising have the precision of a sniper rifle, versus what it was before, like some sort of shotgun fired from 150 feet away in the dark.

    An entire species of marks.

    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      That and all the people who say shit like “But I have to watch the ads to support the creators”, like there wasn’t 70 years of TV advertisements preceding this generation. I know I’m talking to a kid when someone says that. No one thought they were stealing from Burt Reynolds if they didn’t buy a Chrysler or tampons. It’s absurd.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The link between conspiracies and ads is way stronger than that. The ad industry really went into high gear following WWII when the people working on pumping out propaganda to drive their own side of the war stepped up the game by applying psychology, new media, and a bigger budget.

      Those people and techniques then moved to the commercial market when the war ended and applied their trade to peddle us the crap their customers wanted to sell. Make us feel bad if we don’t buy product X and go on an endless consumption treadmill to try to feel good and adequate about ourselves.

      It is despicable and even worse with ads targeting children.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I have been using adblockers for decades already. And it’s been that long since I had to see ads. Occasionally some site will have some way of it getting through but even then I have the plugin scan and it sometimes can start blocking it. Essentially, my internet has been 95% ad-free and frankly I am surprised when I encounter anyone who doesn’t do the same.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        Remember that time when YT started showing banner ads below the video? Yeah, that was like just after the dinosaurs were wiped out and before blockchains became a thing. I was a long time ago, ok. Anyway, that’s when I was about to quit watching YT, but then I suddenly discovered the wonderful world of ad-blocking. Turns out, YT became watchable again.

      • Uli@sopuli.xyz
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        6 months ago

        I’ve used an adblocker for ages as well, though I do wish content creators on YouTube could get some passive non-membership revenue from me without me having to disable my adblock and look directly into the Ark of the Covenant. I could get Premium, but at that point, I feel like I’ve negotiated with a terrorist.

        • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          If they have a Join in addition to subscribe that directly gives them revenue (of course not until after YouTube has taken like 80%). Also always see if they have a patreon account. I occasionally contribute to some very talented people.

          • Uli@sopuli.xyz
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            6 months ago

            For sure, that’s what I meant by membership. There’s just so many different creators I watch, I can’t afford to support them all directly. Maybe I’ll make some playlists to play on the TV with ads while I’m out of the house.

            • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Yeah I agree there are tons and it’s not your responsibility to support them. My personal approach is if I stumble upon someone I find to be extremely talented and who is clearly working very hard at something and has been persevering for a long time, I then check to see if they’re already being helped by people. If not that’s when I consider contributing a little.

              I mean I have my own family to support so it’s just a little bit here and there but it’s something. Mostly I consider it when I feel that the world is better with their work in it than without.

        • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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          6 months ago

          Most of them earn more from Patreon and merch, that’s how you support them greatly, not by watching and clicking ads.

          Like, even the creators themselves tell you you can support them on Patreon or through their merch, they never tell you to get Premium, Join or click ads, as they don’t help much.

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I feel your vitriol and agree with it 100%.

      When politicians of both parties say shit like “Americans like their private health insurance”… I kind of die a little.

      When a random podcast from somewhere else in the world has a local ad injected into it by the app I downloaded it with…same.

      When the godamn fucking pitcher’s mound has a CGI ad superimposed over it…same.

      We’re going to advertise and conspicuously consume ourselves into extinction. So there’s that I guess.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

      and like 90% of people think they’re completely impervious to ads lol

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Use Firefox. Use ublock origin extension. Use sponsorblock.

    On iOS Safari extension Adblock. Plenty available.

    I have not seen an ad in years. Decades even.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve got about half a dozen plugins in Firefox specifically for YouTube to make the front page even remotely usable.

    Without them YouTube isn’t even worth it.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Behind the overlay

        ClearURLs

        Click bait Remover for YouTube

        Disconnect

        Return YouTube Dislike

        SponsorBlock for YouTube

        uBlock Origin (with WaterFox web browser - cannot stress this combo enough.)

        Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts

        YouTube High Definition

        Privacy Bager (also super important)

        If you get any of these, you block origin with waterfox is a very powerful combination for YouTube and general browsing on the internet. Couple all that with privacy badger and you’ll be relatively okay.

        There are a lot of other stuff out there. Just browse through the Firefox extension plug-in store or whatever it is and they’ll all be there.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    YouTube is broke, but it was also deliberately punishing you for looking up Nick swardson I think?

  • jimrob4@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    I caved and subscribed during the 2020 elections. Got tired of seeing two old dipshits yell at each other in ads. Actually enjoyed it enough to keep paying $12 a month.

  • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    {does Nick Swardson loitering search} {scrolls…} {thinking face} “i don’t see what their on about most of this looks relevant…” {looks at Ublock notification bubble} *** {66 blocked}*** “oh… oh my.”

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      yes, but their results are trash now. shows you 5 results, then 10 or things you’ve probably already seen completely unrelated to the search, then random “trending” garbage.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      This is not ad-blocking related. The search results on YouTube are literal trash and there’s nothing we can do about it.