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Yes, you are hurting the content creator's™ feelings and future
No, youtube is infringing on my rights with anti-ad blocker ads
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GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

I wonder what the next big thing will be called.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

the best way to stop those ads would be to buy google

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

heres an actually good idea blockchain but for video hosting and sharing

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

if you are getting the "three strikes and you're banned notice" then the best thing you can do to help the world is to purposefully get banned and then stop using youtube so that the data shows it

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

roomtone posted:

engage mass a/b testing program

compile results which will result in all the money for us if our calculations are 100% correct which they are as of 9.07am

introduce the unblockable ads

how.... how did you just do an entire years worth of business in a single post??!?? amazing

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

over 13 years i have managed to cultivate a recommended / suggested list from youtube which is practically flawless. i have not seen a clickbait video title in ages. nearly everything recommended is excellent viewing and/or episodes of long-forgotten media.

and i'm willing to sacrifice it all rather than give a dime to an online video clip subscription site. i dont give a gently caress how many influencers you pimp. i'm here to watch my name is saad. namaste.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

pretty soon youll be able to gently caress a google robot so its not all bad i guess

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

im pregnad

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

naem posted:

why do streaming and youtube all have two really loud annoying ads that play multiple times in the same video?

I get an advertiser has paid for X number of ad plays but it does not seem like a good strategy to make me hate their goods-and-or-services

nobody in advertising / marketing actually knows how to make the number go up, they have just developed indicators of it over the years. one of these is ad spend.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

naem posted:

here is a drug ad targeted at a very niche rare illness a small number of very elderly people have featuring happy grandparents in the park, bowling, holding hands with each other, and a long list of weird butthole related side effects and the fact that sudden death may occur

ok here it is again

and again

these grandparents seem to be having a better time than me maybe should ask my doctor about rrsxnsbrrbrhitan

fun fact many companies will spend millions of dollars on ads that everyone sees, but are designed for sometimes one single person specifically.

in this example, a doctor or a legislator or something.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

noticed a new chrome update today.

not only is the UI worse but undoubtedly it includes a bunch of anti-consumer stuff

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

Khanstant posted:

Lol when adults have an iPhone

teehee :)

(this post brought to you by samsung phone, though it had to be retyped like 8 times)

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

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.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

Pitdragon posted:

if google knows your personal browsing history they can make a prediction about what you are going to do next/what emotional state you are in based off your activity

they can then check to see if their prediction is right by monitoring your activity

once they get good at predicting your behavior they can sell off those predictions to marketers and political organizations so that those actors can more effectively manipulate you

basically the idea is that they get to know you better than you know yourself and then they can guarantee sales/political engagement to the people interested in foisting those things upon you

it's still a work in progress but they're getting better at it every day

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.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

this is why you can disable personal results on pretty much anything. it barely matters (to the advertisers, to google, to the bottom line, and to the consumer).

it only ever matters to advertisers in the situation of those super special "one person only" ads that are still very common and routine.
and even they need to be heavily blanketed for regions if they have any chance at being successful.

google sure likes to sell up their ability to fulfil personal advertisements but this is almost exclusively because google has your search record history (and advertisers don't). they barely do anything functional with it anyway, since there are millions of keywords and companies out there vying for your attention, but it's a "have" vs a "have not" sort of thing and it makes a huge difference to the landscape of their monopoly, mostly in terms of revenue.

tl;dr ads are way less magical than you think. this actually makes them suck even more poo poo, to me.

GolfHole fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Oct 20, 2023

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

Winkle-Daddy posted:

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.

i mean... i frequently utilize and also set up some up some of the 'modern' stuff we are using and its all just redressed spreadsheets, if/else statements, and timestamps made accessible through extremely fancy SaaS packaging

saying it's just spreadsheets kind of diminishes the actual capabilities of having umpteenth amounts of data (and thus, being able to actually build 'targeted' ads based on science)

but the reason i did is because, in the guts, it's still just a matrix of data about a matrix of people in a matrix of spreadsheets. theres no wizard of oz.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

if any of that poo poo actually worked then [more than a small, severely deranged, group of] people wouldnt hate ads to begin with... since theyd be so useful...

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

countdown to tiktoktube

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

PhazonLink posted:

does not being logged into your google panopitcon account have an affect?

I have still never seen the 3 strikes warning and im pretty sure I have the same youtube usage as the avg goon. (does having a youtube tab going on with something almost constantly count?)

ive been wondering this too, i guess this confirms it

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

now allow this on plex.

are you listening, plex?

allow buffering. putos.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

I'm still having 0 problems with this and its either because:

1) I'm in Canada
2) I also have a chromecast which I didn't pihole and so every now and again if I queue something to the TV directly I do actually see ads, even though all my PC browsers have adblock

Can anyone confirm either theory

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

i knew it

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

i'm only using bbs boards and telnet will this affect me

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

you know not enough people are saying that youtube funkin sucks anyway lol. i dont give a gently caress if they shut it down. you can't find the original "who's that pokemon?!?!?!" video without sifting through a thousand clones. youtube has no purpose as its original purpose anymore.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

i purchased 4 dozen carrier pigeons, i'm ready to post

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

god damnit!!!!!! arggggghhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

if companies need ad impressions so much why dont they just set up billions of virtual machines to serve the ads to, bing bong

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

I'm 99% sure Google is purposefully degrading my Chromecast 3's so that they frustrate me into buying whatever new, ad-supported version they make is.

It's actually kind of amazing that Google has turned into the shittiest company. Sunrise sunset.

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