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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That kind of shit is why I run GNU, and so should everybody else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't run gnu; you probably run Linux. In the same sense, you don't mention how you ride the tires to work but you probably mention riding a bicycle, bus or car. You go to see art, not the tools used to create it, and this is why van gogh's art is on display and not the brushes he used to such great effect.

Keep it in perspective no matter how hard the feet-picker wants to distract you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, I run GNU. I don't give a fuck whether the kernel is Linux or HURD, but I do care that as much of the system as possible is copyleft instead of merely permissive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well this whole exchange was definitely the dumbest pedantry I've seen today.

Well done.