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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 15, 2022 2:00:39 GMT -5
IMO the worst are mobile game ads. They’re pretty much the Wild West in that they’re just allowed to completely lie about what they’re selling for whatever reason. Hero Wars Ive seen ads showing it as a puzzle game with a stupid Wolverine lookalike, a prison game, a game with a pregnant princess, and one with an abandoned cat I lose my mind at these partly because the ads are such obvious BS and partly because 'Hero Wars' is the most generic possible name for a came I can imagine. How do you even remember the name of that game But yeah lately YouTube is trying to make itself utterly unusable with ads on to force you to go Premium and f*** them, I man more stubborn
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 15, 2022 16:25:16 GMT -5
Yeah ads ruin everything but... Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime.
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Post by J. Hova on Sept 15, 2022 17:27:02 GMT -5
The worst is now political ads have invaded YouTube and living in a border area of IL and IA, I get the distinction of getting both state's candidates. It has almost made me an anarchist.
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 16, 2022 9:00:27 GMT -5
The worst is now political ads have invaded YouTube and living in a border area of IL and IA, I get the distinction of getting both state's candidates. It has almost made me an anarchist. Oh god, watching a football game on local TV right now in Iowa is just a hellscape of political ads
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 16, 2022 21:11:01 GMT -5
Think it's a coincidence that the week this thread is made youtube is testing out bigger ad blocks?
Yeah, sure.
I think this will hurt content makers, not help them. I do believe that. It will change the people who use the free version viewing habits. Fewer views in the long run.
I sub to about I dunno say 50 channels... Might actively watch about a couple of dozen of those when they release new content. But now it will be even less if ads are going to take up a good chunk of the viewing time. Not going to watch a vlogger’s 30+ minute video of them wandering around a theme park if there are going to be so many ads.
The content makers should be pleading with google “Don’t do this!”
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 20, 2022 22:17:04 GMT -5
I just scrolled facebook first time in ages.
Jesus f***ing Christ. Every 3rd post is a shit advert. Zero of which im interested in.
Its worse when it says at the top "Eric and Marvin like Samsung"
So f***ing what?
Actually cell game ads are the worst. I despise them. The game always looks wank too
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 20, 2022 22:50:21 GMT -5
I dont mind ads, but only when they warn me that they're coming up. I was watching a movie on Crackle, and the ads just came up unexpectedly. I keep thinking they're part of the film for a second.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 21, 2022 11:06:11 GMT -5
I studied advertising in College, thought I was going to be a copy writer, didn't end up happening. I will say I like the recent trend on podcasts/YT videos where the sponsors don't actually write copy and they just let the hosts say damn near whatever they want to promote the product, that's lead to some hilarious moments Back in 2020,might have been early 2021,my old podcast got a sponsorship from Manscape. Got sent a fake manscape razor,just made the buzzing noise and was told just talk about the product twice on the show. No guidelines on what to say. Hell it had to be late 2020 cause after I talked about how the manscape lawnmower 3.0 didn't nick or cut you I added in "And guess what Brandon this year you don't have to get your wife a bunch of toothpicks in her stocking." He thought it was funny,his wife loved it. Manscape was pissed. All the other sponsorships we got sent us ad copy to read.
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Post by JIMBOB on Sept 23, 2022 12:54:44 GMT -5
“Um excuse me, that’s MY job.”
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 25, 2022 2:03:03 GMT -5
A few of the streaming services I pay for have ads,Hulu,peacock and Paramontplus.
I just keep a comic/mag/book nearby. Ad break starts I read a few pages.
Even now the ad breaks on Hulu arent nearly as bad as tv. Before Days of Our lives left NBC I timed it one day. In an hour long block the actual show as 36 minutes and 35 seconds. Almost half of that hour was ads!!!
Another reason why once we get fiber net with no data cap out where I live,it is 2 miles down the road right now,I am getting that and dropping Dish.
The worst for me is my parents watch the INSP channel often. Cool they love westerns and it is something they enjoy. But every ad break you get the same 4 ads. I see that Mike Huckabee ad shilling some sleep aid that doesn't work and the CAMP lejune ads 100 times a day.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 25, 2022 8:07:54 GMT -5
The worst is now political ads have invaded YouTube and living in a border area of IL and IA, I get the distinction of getting both state's candidates. It has almost made me an anarchist. The 2020 election, YouTube had obnoxious banner ads for one candidate. I'm British and I got them.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 25, 2022 9:23:34 GMT -5
The worst is now political ads have invaded YouTube and living in a border area of IL and IA, I get the distinction of getting both state's candidates. It has almost made me an anarchist. My Reddit app keeps showing me ads for a podcast by Alex Jones wannabe and all-round shit bloke Paul Joseph Watson for some reason. f*** right off.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 25, 2022 11:05:36 GMT -5
Nothing is worse than Google bombarding ads for their products on YouTube.
There's an annoying one out now about passwords with some annoying woman yodelling
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 11:21:14 GMT -5
See i got YouTube premium, mostly so i could watch picture in picture on my phone and listen to videos with the screen off whilst walking. But watching regular YouTube on my partners account on the TV is unwatchable now. So its a bad choice, but for the pluses I'll always pay a bit more for no ads and a better service
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 11:25:52 GMT -5
The worst is now political ads have invaded YouTube and living in a border area of IL and IA, I get the distinction of getting both state's candidates. It has almost made me an anarchist. My Reddit app keeps showing me ads for a podcast by Alex Jones wannabe and all-round shit bloke Paul Joseph Watson for some reason. f*** right off. My former podcast app kept pushing very alt right podcasts on me, did not appreciate
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 25, 2022 12:34:21 GMT -5
My Reddit app keeps showing me ads for a podcast by Alex Jones wannabe and all-round shit bloke Paul Joseph Watson for some reason. f*** right off. My former podcast app kept pushing very alt right podcasts on me, did not appreciate And see I keep hearing Big Tech is silencing them.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Sept 25, 2022 13:24:27 GMT -5
Glad that I still have seasons of shows on dvds so I can watch some shows ad free tried to watch them via streaming and yeah……could care less about the ads…….especially when it’s the same damn ads every single break
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 25, 2022 15:18:14 GMT -5
See i got YouTube premium, mostly so i could watch picture in picture on my phone and listen to videos with the screen off whilst walking. But watching regular YouTube on my partners account on the TV is unwatchable now. So its a bad choice, but for the pluses I'll always pay a bit more for no ads and a better service Google is determined lately to force people to subscribe to their services by making the free ones worse, and kill off all adblock and antitrack services. Chromium based browsers currently have such a big market share that they can get away with this shit.
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Post by Hurbster on Sept 25, 2022 17:16:57 GMT -5
Yeah ads ruin everything but... Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime. Is is very good, to be honest.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 15, 2022 19:18:33 GMT -5
Hope this is OK, mods delete if not. But I started a subreddit .. there are probably already hundreds of sr’s dedicated to this sort of thing. But I saw that the name was free and jumped on it: www.reddit.com/r/AdsRuinEverything/Feel free to contribute.
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