alt Hacker NewsI'm still unable to accept that people accept ads as a part of life. I can't use instagram it's full of ads. I did finally get YT premium convinced by people on here but UBO all the way. Thankfully I never got sucked into Twitch.
I get it too I'm a bad person for not accepting articles where every other paragraph is an ad.
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Youtube is still very much ad spam even if you block the ads.
Of course it depends on what kind of videos you watch. But videos themselves are becoming more ad filled and lower effort for me.
I mainly consume software, gaming, cooking and hardware news videos.
Huge portion of human effort going to ads is really sad
The people who "accept ads as a part of life" are funding the content you read and watch. You are not in any way "a bad person", but you should be thankful that not everyone blocks ads.
My 2.5 year old recognizes ads and says “ew, ads” because I’ve intentionally said it each time we see one.
There was a Firefox extension long ago that did NOT block ads but hid them. Basically it loaded them and for all the site knew, the add was showing, so it was transparent.
But, the ad wasn't rendering in the page. So the user didnt need to suffer them, but the website owners still profited.
The only losers where ad buyers, who IMHO are exactly the ones that should be affected.until they realize that ads are not effective.
Someone should bring something like that for current platforms. Even for video like, a placeholder video with a tip, interesting fact or whatever, playing while the page load the real video.