uBlock Origin doesn’t work on radio, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to endure ads on YouTube.
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Ikr? If they still complain about YouTube ads the suffering can't be that bad or they would finally install a fucking ad blocker.
a LOT of people have no idea how any of that works. And I don't shit on them, I help them. Sometimes I install uBlock on people's computers without telling them because if I told them then whenever their printer stops working it would be my fault, but they often get surprised after a while like, huh I don't get ads anymore that's weird and great...
Last person I helped install Firefox+uBlock on their phone went back to the YouTube apps in no time, as far as I understand they just liked the app better. Evidently a lot of people don't mind ads that much, which is ludicrous to me.
If they knew it would probably stop working, as then Google would be motivated enough to break it 😅
Some people get off on being punished 
VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don't pretend to know how that works, but it does.
When it doesn't I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don't mind because I don't understand what the fuck they're saying and it sounds funny.
Now I'm picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.
Youtubes ads for liberty have ensured that I will never, ever, evereverever buy insurance from liberty.
Why tf would I want to give my money to a company that has been, basically, waterboarding me with ads? Ruining my entertainment? It makes no sense.
My logic is that they are spending way too much money on advertising, so it will be more expensive for me for no gain.
My view is that if they need to advertise so much they must have a shitty product.
I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them... glad others do to.
Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.
The irony of not able to be liberated from LIBERTYLIBERTYLIBERTY!LIBERTY!
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Radio "solved" it by syncing their ads. What are you gonna switch to? Other ads?
Behold the innovation! Praise capitalism!
The BBC. No adverts.
It's great, but I don't think it would work in USA. Imagine the reaction of Americans if they would have to pay $200 a year for a TV license.
We have (for now at least) NPR and PBS.
Me: turns off radio for 5 minutes
Radio stations everywhere: wait no reeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
car manufacturers: actually we found that people drive safer if we disable the radio off button when driving
Advertising is the inflamed appendix of capitalism.
Advertising is the inflamed appendix of capitalism.
I use ublock origin. I don't see no ads.
No ublock for when you walk around outside and get assaulted by ads though...
That's what a spray can and molotow is for
thats what the hippocampus is for
Fanta pissed me off with their ads 20+ years ago. I have not had a Fanta since.
It's my favorite softdrink - i'm lucky that didn't happen for me. Do you perchance still remember what ad it was and how i could search for it? i'm intrigued now :-)
Fanta Fanta, don't you want a? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEb0cYq6dvI
at least that's what comes to my mind
oof, that's annoying as hell, i agree
I have 2 wolves, etc
Then they went with just having the radio performers do the ad in the middle of the show, and we're back to that again with youtubers sticking ad reads in the middle of their videos...
I remember when that used to be considered "tacky." In fact a whole lot of things so-called "influencers" do today are things that probably would've gotten them labeled as "tacky" and "sell-outs" back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.
I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that "Honey" (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.
Making a living as a YouTuber is a sad business in general, even millions of views are usually not enough to live off of it, especially when you actually have production costs beyond the single creator's own living expenses and their personal computer.
Ironic part is they proved it worked cause they're specifying the brand
I’ve stopped listening to the radio, watching TV, or using social media altogether. They keep interrupting my ads with content.
Complaints about media in 2050:
I thought being pushy and invasive was the whole point of advertising.
I originally got XM radio because it was ad free.
Then they merged with Sirrus making it a monopoly and they immediately:
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Jacked up the price
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Reduced benefits
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Removed programming
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Injected ads everywhere
And while this was happening, everyone was up in arms over Activision/Blizzard and the fate of fucking COD in another merger treated more like an absolute monopoly than the actual monopoly with the satellite radio providers.
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