- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
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Watched something on YouTube on my TV for the first time last week. Never again. 12 minute video had like 6 or 8 ads, 2-3 were 30 seconds. Fuck. That.
SmartTube
SmartTube is the best. There was a small period of time recently where it stopped working and it was so bad going back to regular YT that I just stopped watching entirely.
Yeah, it’s not worth it. Maybe sometime I’ll get something like pihole set up so YouTube is usable on my TV, but for now, I just plug in a laptop w/ proper ad block.
I’d totally pay for YT if it was reasonable for my usage. But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn’t worth it for me.
I have a pihole and the youtube app on a smart TV. Trying to block the ad domains from the TV just bricks the app. Maybe I’m doing something wrong but, I got no luck.
You can’t block youtube ads with DNS blocking; youtube serves ads from the same domains it serves the actual video from.
You need a custom youtube client like Revanced.
Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.
Holy shit this is the first I’ve heard of Playlet. Giving it a go now and it’s already impressive.
Adtech is a scam
Recent report showed all these verification companies missed obvious bot traffic and weren’t doing anything prebid even though they were charging for it lol
Multiple sources said that, based on the report, verification platforms appear to be blocking domains based on historical, post-bid assessments of the site’s bot traffic, rather than doing real-time, pre-bid bot blocking on an impression-by-impression basis.
No advertising platform has any incentive to prevent bot traffic; they actively profit from ‘failing’ to prevent it.
Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their ‘experimentations’. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they would from honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.
The number goes up if you know what I mean.
You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.
We have
- a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
- ruining our planet’s climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
- ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
- destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
- keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
- destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…
Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.
Are people concerned with WHICH ads they see?
Do people see ads? I’m on Firefox with an adblocker I haven’t seen an ad in ages, anywhere. Except perhaps for that brief interval where Youtube nominally tried to stop adblocking, it worked for like two weeks and it made me go check out FreeTube until they gave up.
Yeah, with Firefox + uBlock Origin I’m always surprised when I come across an ad. It’s like getting a spam email in my Gmail inbox in 2025, a novelty :)
Whatever ads slip through are still quite annoying though (especially autoplaying videos when I disabled it in the browser settings) - I either hide them with reading mode, or Stylus if it’s a site I visit repeatedly, or if neither works I just go to another site 🤷♂️
Honestly, at this point the dealbreaking enshittification stuff I bump into is mostly subscription requests and paywalls from the sites themselves. Which, fair enough, people need to get paid and I don’t have a particularly good answer to give them about how. I am not watching ads on purpose as a support gesture, though.
Enshittification continues.
It’s a naturally emergent property of capitalism.
Wasn’t Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?
Wasn’t that with the old administration?
The real group getting screwed here are advertisers who used to get free protection against their campaigns running with excessive frequency.
This change lets Google burns their customers ad budgets of a bunch of junk duplicate impressions.
The real group getting screwed here are advertisers
On no the parasite funding this whole circus getting screwed over by a mega corp…
Fuk 'em, they deserve each other.
Deny the Parasite profit 🐸
The people paying for content are the parasites?
I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.
People attempting to inject their shit corporate propaganda into my daily life is in fact a parasite… That I deny engagement daily!
Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.
Who owns teevee shows and movies?
Who owns the music?
Who owns the shit posting on here?
Are these “Creatives” in the room with us right now dear?
Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.
degoogling and demicroshit defaceberg over last decade is really printing now
