Annoying.

YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined

  • Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, my experience with youtube ads

    Buy a Chromebook

    PragerU

    Right wing Youtubers

    Don’t vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constitution

    Buy a ford

    Here’s a pornographic/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you

    BUY A CHROME BOOK!

    Hey, check out this person’s scam! They paid us to force this scam on you!

    Look at these cable news channels’ youtube channels

    Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children

    BUY

    A

    CHROMEBOOK!

    buy a jeep

    Listen to this prepper try to hock you “survival” gear and shelf stable food

    Don’t you remember when families did things? wasn’t that fun? Families, doing things?

    Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!

    I am interested in none of these things

      • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        My 6yo gets a ton of ads for insurance, about the same amount as for toys. It’s weird.

      • FraidyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        You could always spice it up and see what you get.

        I use VPNs and ad blockers where I can / when they work. I also have an extension that makes my Internet traffic useless by sending random data. When I need to go to the official YouTube app and get ads I get a smorgasbord. Right now they seem to think I’m either a recently divorced middle aged man with ED who just discovered they are actually a balding gay man or a teenaged girl with period problems and a desperate need for a social media following. Neither of these even come close but it’s always entertaining to see what I get.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That thing, you know that thing that you already buy? Here’s an ad for it! Now we get to lie and say we were the reason you bought it!

      It’s so fucking weird how I got way more ads for runescape when I played runescape, and it’s not like I watch less runescape content today. They also seem to think I’m a girl because whenever I do get something unique it’s always for purses, make up, fashion and hygiene products; all of which I have a below-zero chance of ever buying.

      • Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I have never gotten an ad for a game I was currently playing. For me it’s always these mobile games, namely ones that use hentai art to sell the game, I have found out some of these are not actually porn games, or the most recent offering from the biggest studios.

        Oh you reminded me, hygiene products, all sorts of hygiene products that have been branded to assure me I am not gay, or a woman, for wanting bathe and groom myself. There is also the one where some douche tells me I am not a dish.

        I never get fashion ones, however my feed is periodically bombarded with videos to people who make subculture fashion for women. like lolita dresses. I have no idea why. The only thing I can think of is that I show an interest in music with associated subcultures and they just do not know how to get them right. Hey, this guy listened to Lingua Ignota, let’s send him 20 channels discussing pastel colored lolita clothes and kawaii culture.