Half the point of ads these days isn’t to advertise to you, it’s to piss you off enough to upgrade to a paid plan. If they happen to also make money from the adverts, then that’s just an added bonus.

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll never pay. I've spent so much money of failed Google products at this point they owe me YT premium for life. If they make bypassing ads impossible I'll just stop watching.

[–] red_rising@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I feel the same. I don’t do ads. If a product doesn’t have an ad-free product that I’m willing to pay for, then that product doesn’t exist for me. Similarly, if a paid product decides to introduce ads (I’m looking at you Amazon) I’m immediately cancelling.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12

I'd say we haven't got to all-despising baby skull yet, but youtube still keeps trying to recommend Joe Rogan.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

If the baby skull is all-despising, doesn't that mean it isn't bigoted anymore and is thus paradoxically suboptimal?

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're not kidding. My girlfriend started talking about this until I straight up told her to stop. She already has ublock on pc she knows there's a way, she's just willing to pay to not have ads on her YouTube TV app because they're frustrating.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

your gf is kind of a tool and needs to crack or replace her TV.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Eh I get what you mean even if it does sound sorta mean and I don't entirely disagree. I would just call it ignorance, she wasn't aware that you could get cracked apps for tvs or that just hooking up your pc to the TV is an easier alternative to all of that. Now she knows and she's all about it.

Were planning to move in together soonish and I told her I would handle all the techside of stuff and that she can just let me know what she wants and I'll do it.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yeah I'm usually the 'I will make your machines stop using you' friend. which is probably why I'm so bitter about people putting up with this shit.

[–] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Smarttube works well on my android TV. Comes with adblock and sponsorblock enabled. I'd bet my TV is spying on me in some way, so yeah, PC and TV disconnected from the Internet would probably be better.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

She has a roku TV which I've read a bit about cracking but it sounds sorta annoying. Once we move in I'm planning to get a projector and hook it up to a mini pc with a wireless small mouse and keyboard. We mostly use it for movie nights anyways.

[–] nytrixus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That is essentially the existence of marketers in general.

I can't remember the last time I've bought a product because a commercial was successful in getting me to. Every commercial anymore is just to annoy. Annoy you with things you obviously wouldn't want to buy. Annoy you with the knowledge that instead of paying the people running the company fairer wages, they invest millions into making said stupid commercial. As well as not improving the product or service in any conceivable way. That's all it is.