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Croccers posted:Lol. Easily more than 10+ years ago. Probably 15+ years ago. Duck and Cover posted:Why would you admit to this? Ad blockers are dirt easy to use and yet you're like No shade thrown at those who do use them. Just explaining why I don't. I use the service enough that paying would be justified if I personally paid for it (Have in the past, likely will in the future).
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Oct 19, 2023 22:12
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The General posted:Easily more than 10+ years ago. Probably 15+ years ago. Thanks for telling us the lies/half truths you use to justify to yourself and others your selfish short sighted laziness. Ohhhhh this garbage hosting service is worth it to me! I'm really being a savvy consumer! Ad blockers are really hard.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:29
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Which part am I lying about?? 
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The General posted:Which part am I lying about?? Lol.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:34
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I also pay for streaming services to watch shows I like  Edit: Speaking of, if anybody is paying for youtubes in here you should watch the YouTube Originals™ Weird City (comedy Black Mirror) and Wayne (disgruntled delinquent teen goes across country to reclaim his dad's car). The General fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Oct 19, 2023 22:36
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The General posted:I also pay for streaming services to watch shows I like https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4042532 Lol.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:39
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The General posted:No shade thrown at those who do use them. Just explaining why I don't. I use the service enough that paying would be justified if I personally paid for it (Have in the past, likely will in the future). At times you might have to fiddle with something when Youtube or whatever pulls a fuckery like this, but even if you don't care to, you see like 95% fewer ads.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:00
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See above. I used to, just got tired of fighting the good fight and gave up never to return. Outside of Fandom I don't even really notice ads.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:08
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But what fight? Like you install it once and then it's there and you never touch it. I'm pretty sure I installed it for my mom like five years ago and she has probably forgotten it exists and it still blocks the ads just fine.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:10
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It's like demonic possession, you can just pour a circle of salt around your house once and be protected, or you can pay the demon a monthly tithe to possess someone else instead.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:12
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I can't imagine trying to use half the internet without an adblocker. So many sites are basically unreadable without them.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:14
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Maybe they like the internet being an ad infested hell hole?
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Elukka posted:But what fight? Like you install it once and then it's there and you never touch it. I'm pretty sure I installed it for my mom like five years ago and she has probably forgotten it exists and it still blocks the ads just fine. A very very long time ago there was a crackdown on ad blockers and everyday for like a week I had to fiddle with something to make them work. So I just stopped trying and have never bothered to go back. Yes I am a quitter at most things in life.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:23
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i avert my eyes from any and all signage, kiosks, posters, and displays
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The General posted:A very very long time ago there was a crackdown on ad blockers and everyday for like a week I had to fiddle with something to make them work. So I just stopped trying and have never bothered to go back. Yes I am a quitter at most things in life. you put so much more effort into defending your laziness than clickin on "install extension" its insane lol
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Oct 19, 2023 23:52
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I have a lot of free time, and shitposting is more fun than installing extensions.
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Zero VGS posted:I don't condone violence but didn't YouTube very recently piss off people enough to get their office shot up? That was five years ago. Nasim Aghdam shot up the YouTube HQ because they changed the rules for ad revenue sharing and it killed her income.
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The General posted:A very very long time ago there was a crackdown on ad blockers and everyday for like a week I had to fiddle with something to make them work. So I just stopped trying and have never bothered to go back. Yes I am a quitter at most things in life. So a long time ago you were too dumb to paste one link into an auto filter list and gave up forever and just deal w ads ez ept for when you can use a friends account to avoid them good job
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hbag posted:seeing the mcdonalds logo and screaming in anguish as my body pilots itself to order a quarter pounder against my will Read this post in Dave Mustaine's voice. It didn't disappoint.
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Random Stranger posted:Running people off so you might make a hundredth of a cent is a bad business decision. I'm not sure I follow. Pure in-app engagement is not the working profit model at YT.
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I have ad blockers on my pc but not on my phone or tv. So, I'm used to a little of both. The ad version clutters the home page. If you forget to skip, then you get infomercials that are an hour long. It doesn't make sense. The normal 5 sec skip/15 sec required ads aren't that bad.
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Zybourne Clock posted:Let's not dunk on the gormless ad-watcher too hard. His low standards are what keeps YouTube afloat, after all. Yeah it's like the fools who whale my F2P games, I mean sure keep paying up so I can keep rocking it free. dervival posted:McDonald's advertiser execs should follow Lowtax's example!!! To be fair that "MCDONALDS!" patent was actually from Sony  I'm the tiny whole pickle in a gigantic meat patty.
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Oct 20, 2023 01:40
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Just putting a schlong in a burger, nbd
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my son wont put the pickel in the burger. he always slides it really close but never in. we asked him to stop buyt he just laughs and says hes getting dilled. please help we need to watch the bachelar.
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deep dish peat moss posted:It's like demonic possession, you can just pour a circle of salt around your house once and be protected, or you can pay the demon a monthly tithe to possess someone else instead.
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fcc compliant bob posted:I'm not sure I follow. Pure in-app engagement is not the working profit model at YT. I was talking about web sites in general who throw "disable your adblocker" messages since they push people away rather than have them disable the block. The lost revenue from the adblocker is next to nothing, but driving people away from your website has a multiplicative effect; people who leave just don't think about you at all and would never direct anyone else there.
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This is so humiliating, it feels like it's more about power and dominance than about profit
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Mr McDonald sitting in his golden tower spying on us through our TV saying we are loving it while sliding the pickle to speed up the 12 minute commercial to get back to the trailer for McDonald's Disney's Marvel's The Supersized Avengers movie.
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Is there a patent for a feature where it shows you four of your most pathetic Google searches and then you need to circle the most pathetic one with your remote and type "I'm a bad and worthless human being and everyone only pretends to like me out of politeness and I will never feel good again" and if you make a typo you have to start again? Billionaires would pay to place these, cause, let's be honest, once your net worth reaches $10 billion, money doesn't do it anymore but this could
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deep dish peat moss posted:. That didn't actually happen, as far as can be determined the story is basically a form of meta-marketing.
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Tunicate posted:That didn't actually happen, as far as can be determined the story is basically a form of meta-marketing. The only source I can find repeating what you're saying here is an article by a guy with seemingly no credentials posted on medium (an outlet that allows literally anyone to write opinion pieces about any topic they want) who postulates that it's "probably not true" with his reasoning being: "I don't believe it" e: lmao it's written by a Meta employee, a company famous for downplaying stories about data harvesting, who also writes articles about how raising minimum wage is bad deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Other experts have said the unsourced story has no grounding. And applying any critical thinking, the story itself just doesn't make any sense on the face of it. >The latest mailer from target arrives, including deals on all sorts of things like wine glasses and baby stuff >the father opens it and starts reading it for deals on things >seeing an ad for baby stuff mixed in with the other target ads, he quickly looks at the mailing address and realizes it was mailed to his daughter instead of at him >he comes to the conclusion that the baby stuff, specifically, is targeted at his daughter >he runs into a physical target location to complain to the manager about this because????????? >the manager decides to make a followup call to the psycho who came in person to the store and ranted about the advertisements he got in the mail It is utterly implausible as a chain of events, with the contrived setup only existing to get the payoff of 'our product knows this girl better than her own father!!!!!!!!', with a side of 'people get upset at ads that are NOT targeted'. 
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The above is simply the joyous process of becoming a formless semi-divine entity beyond such feeble constraints, glad for her!
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describing an everyday mundane task as an "experience" is a shibboleth that lets you know you're dealing with a lizard person
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Why do you need a personalised shopping experience? If I'm looking for shoes, I select my shoe size and maybe narrow it down to a style. I don't need the website to track me across the entire internet and fill that in for me.
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lmao the guy who did that comic is literally a marketer and makes comics about solely about marketing https://marketoonist.com/
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look all im saying is i have a weird mix of different ad blockers and poo poo and im yet to get a single popup or ad from youtube
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Why do you need a personalised shopping experience? If I'm looking for shoes, I select my shoe size and maybe narrow it down to a style. I don't need the website to track me across the entire internet and fill that in for me. I appreciate personalized stuff but the "shopping experience" on random websites is usually trash. My doctor is helpful with suggesting stuff before it becomes an issue. GetCheapJorts.com doesn't help me in anyway.
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when i go to a shopping site i search for the thing i want to buy and then i buy it. why does google need to know my browsing history for this?
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So it can suggest you buy another baby coffin the next time you're shopping.
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