This meme doesn't just apply to TV Networks nowadays though, it also implies to many youtube-channels I have followed throughout the years and supported them by not having adblock on. Lately they have been placing ads within their 10-20 minute videos, 2-3 ads at a time.
Its either 1 unskippable ad or one that you can skip after 5 seconds at the start, then there are ads within the video as well and even at the end!
example:
also how ridiculous is it that Onecoin is trying to make a couple dollars off youtube ads as well... oh well #timewilltell
but back to my main point, adblock is getting more and more popular, thus decreasing the amount of ad revenue the creators get so they have to add more of them.
I'm really not sure how the ads will further evolve in the future, but just increasing quantity to have users get spammed by them is not the way to go and I can see myself using adblock if this keeps going like this.
I agree I will not watch ads, I simply will not. I am able to use adblock pro for youtube and I refuse to pay for cable television so they can try and influence my buying decisions lol..
I am old enough to remember when cable TV had no ads, at least in the US. That was why we paid for it, and if we were paying for it then there was no need for advertisers.
Of course the big media got greedy and decided they could charge us and sell adds at the same time. Not me, no no no....
Bastards..
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You Tube Is Getting Notorious For Ads
Face Book Too.
Ad Block Is A Given.
It's Free Too.
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I don't usually have the bandwidth to watch much video but I already hate how much advertising there was 2 months ago.
The ad-revenue model for internet businesses is dying. Nobody wants it anymore, and the amount of malware that has been riding into people's networks on it, in fact, not running an adblocker is bad security policy.
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Ugh, didn't even think of the users with datacaps.. must be horrible not using adblocker for them.
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I'm pretty sure even at the tiny price of 1 euro/gigabyte (which is probably about the price I pay) the revenue for those using the advertising are earning less than the ISP.
Not to mention how obnoxious and offensive and usually irrelevant the ad content is, and the way they are trying to profile me.
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Oh that's almost certain! Considering also the middle-men fee's which I think Adsense has at around 30%.
Can't wait for decentralized networks to become popular.
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The answer is to use adblock
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Yeah but then you feel bad for not supporting your favorite youtubers, since for most that's their primary income, ad revenue.
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You can support in other ways. For many ad revenue isn't the primary way anymore. There's monthly payments, donations, buying their merchandise, etc. You watching a 30 second ad only gives them maybe a cent. The time it costs you alone is more valuable than that.
Heck sharing the video on facebook/whatever probably helps them more than watching ads.
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100% one way to sort it out.
If you want to support your favorite youtubers just turn it off for that video
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One needs an ad blocker to watch in a sane atmosphere!
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Archer is my spirit animal
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I quit watching TV in the eighties, because of Ads.
I 've about quit using FaceBook...because of Ads.
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I can't stand it. Not only are ads becoming the standard place to inject malware for random dickheads/spammers , it seems to also be the standard way for state level actors to hijack a "legit" ad service and push their code to whoever they want. I use a combination of modified /etc/host files and custom dns server, ublock and noscript in my sandboxed qubesos browsers - often then piping it all over ssh tunnel/vpn/tor as well. Sounds excessive, but to me it still doesn't feel like enough :P
L0ki raises a good point about bandwidth costs too - Australia has some of the most expensive bandwidth in the world thanks to govt-assisted data monopoly - imagine how infuriating it is to pay through the nose to be forced to watch a HD ad for a product you don't want and couldn't purchase from your country even if you did
This ad model is over imo, but we'll still have 10+ years of crap from people that didn't get the memo yet
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I agree about ads. The other thing that drives me nuts is the increase in "new stories" that are just click-bait.
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