1y ago

YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

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if only ads arent annoying and loud, i have no problems unblocking them. but damn, they're unbearable atleast in my region.
- Getting so many NSFW dating/straight up p##n ads. I shit you not they have even had CP ads I have seen. Disgusting and completely illegal.
  
  The amount of ads that I get on mobile YouTube about meeting Ukrainian women is alarming to say the least
  
  I got russian ones. Jesus christ they are running a fucking massive trafficking ring at the least.
  
  Do you have briefing history turned on? If so, hmmmm.....
  
  Ads are served based on your browsing history. If you have never watched those, then you probably should check on you 8yo child or wife's who's using the same acc
  
  Not necessarily true. They are mostly advertised as "music videos" or something like this. If YouTube would know it's porn or even CP, they wouldn't serve the ads and block the account.
  There are other factors that also play a role like location or age.
  
  Yeah they probably serve it to certain demographics like "men between 25 and 45" or something.
  I've never gotten ads even close to what they describe but probably because I'm a woman and fall on the elder end of gen z. So I get God awful temu and tiktok ads and then what I assume is just served to the general populace like whatever latest child mower they're calling a consumer truck these days.
  
  Ads are served based on your browsing history.
  Not really. Ads served on Google ecosystem is geo-based, if you don't logged in your Google account or where your YouTube connected. You cannot get rid of it, unless you wipe all Chrome and Android users.
  
  I’m pretty sure there’s nothing in my browsing history that would suggest I’m looking for a boyfriend 🤮
  
  Nobody else used my google acc at the time i still had it. I use FF now anyway.
- Simply not having them repeat so often would already go a long long way. I always end up with the same ad 20 times in a row and it's not even relevant to me. I don't get how the ad industry can be worth billions of dollars and be so complete crap at what they do. Most of the stuff I watch on Youtube is essentially already an ad to begin with, all the unboxing, reviews, sponsored content, etc. is just showing me what new products are out there, and they do it in an entertaining fashion. Why are the actual ads so much worse?
- Usually most of my YouTube ads are for bullshit training programs (and I do mean bullshit, like pseudosciencey shit) or gambling.
  Both are just at the edge of legality (I am pretty sure some cross it).
  Except since last month, because now almost all are for that Scorsese movie. I mean, I don't mind being advertised that, but I've seen these ads so much that all they managed to do is make me hate it despite barely knowing anything about it.
  Also, unskippable ads keep being longer. Now it's reached two 20-second ads interrupting even short-ish videos every 5 minutes or so.
  So yeah, people, that's what YouTube looks like without an ad blocker now. Gee, I wonder why so many block them.
  
  I get the piano fraud guy shouting about how only he can teach you mastery of the piano in three days, or something like that. It's a scam but I can't get rid of his obnoxious ads.
  
  In my region (Philippines), this Shopee ads (eq. of Amazon in US) are too cutesy, annoying, and louder than my video I suppose to watch. With or without Google account, this particular ad is everywhere on YouTube. Don't get me on gambling ads.
- The temu and tiktok ads that seem to be intentionally engineered to provoke extreme negative emotions such as discomfort and irritation, that force your attention on the screen by overloading your ears with so much noise that you feel compelled to take in some amount of visual information to ease the shock, and then tacking on hashtag slogans at the end; like "oddly satisfying" after a video of a fucking butcher knife cutting through colorful play sand or "shop like a billionaire" after yelling at me about cheap Chinese goods, both of which only serving as reminders of the current state of society at large and pushing me ever so closer to a state of blind rage; are what finally pushed me to install vanced on my android.
  It's psychological torture and it should be against international human rights law.

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