Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

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Do you agree?
	Yes, you are hurting the content creator's� feelings and future
	No, youtube is infringing on my rights with anti-ad blocker ads
	Just click out and suck it up OP lmfao
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Winkle-Daddy: Mar 10, 2007

incoherent light posted:

My YouTube got cut off for ad blocking. and when the two-extension trick I was using after that stopped working, I just started started using Brave and I'm still ad-free again. I'm not giving Google any more money. I will download the videos and watch them from my hard drive if I have to. I will die, AD-FREE, on this hill

this is what I started doing. I put yt-dlp into a docker container and now whenever I see a video I want to watch I just download it instead.

e: I will delete it when done and re-download it to maximize bandwidth costs to Google

# ¿ Oct 14, 2023 16:21

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:59

Winkle-Daddy: Mar 10, 2007

early 00's me had that for free. youtube is just a lovely version of Napster

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 04:54

Winkle-Daddy: Mar 10, 2007

GolfHole posted:

this really assumes way too much. like ad algorithms are some sort of demigod all-knowing terror.

ads are exceptionally dumb. they are fired at you based on extremely loose associations of words, search terms, and app permissions. if you type something like "vacuum" into google you tick a box for household items, and so that's one of many ads you'll see.

theyre just spreadsheets like anything else. more often than not the information contained in those spreadsheets is impartial and/or inaccurate, filled with garbage searches you've made over the years, and diluted and skewed heavily by the few 'positive' hits you have made on certain items.

ads cannot know you better than you know yourself. they are automated but mostly dumb conditional-logic csv files with tons of bells and whistles. marketers like to pretend there is something far more complex at work but this is very untrue. it's no miracle that married people in their 30's might need a vacuum cleaner, or that men over 35 care about balding.

this isn't even close to reality. when I worked for yahoo search marketing 15 years ago you were already behind on your technology assessment.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 16:38

Winkle-Daddy: Mar 10, 2007

SettingSun posted:

Well don't keep us waiting. I want to hear all the juicy details about decade old ad tech.

here's a ten year old article demonstrating how target, tracking user trends, was able to do things like predict pregnancy in customers. what we were doing was far more invasive than even this. and Google is far better at it than yahoo ever was. extrapolate accordingly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 18:11

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