• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I don’t watch ads, as a rule. They might play, but I don’t watch or listen to them.

    I do the same thing when I choose to “watch” ads in games for rewards (except I have to disable my pihole for that). Basically I’m trading losing my enjoyment for 30 seconds for whatever the reward, and they can have a tiny bit of my data (like wifi, not personal data), but I will not actually consume that bullshit.

    I may not have a choice in how the model works, but I can choose not to participate.

    Sucks to be them, too, because if they weren’t making me sit through ads I’d probably give them money directly, which would be worth a lot more… but I don’t support double dipping so… 🤷🏻

  • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.comEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Say what? Sorry I can’t hear or see you, I’m listening to music on my headphones banishing your shitty adverts with my trusty sword named uBlock Origin.

  • CIWS-30@kbin.social
    22·
    1 year ago

    If it’s youtube, I just back completely out of the video and exit the app and go somewhere else with my time. I do it every time, and now they don’t show me 30 second unskippable ads anymore.

    • barberousse@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m more of a mute person than looking away. It’s funny how ads look silly without sound. Also, it doesn’t stick in your head.

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
    16·
    1 year ago

    My 6 yo taught me if you click the i and then select don’t show this ad it’s skips straight to the video on YouTube

  • FellowHuman@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    There is another solution, I often use: “Turn off the video, and turn it on again.” Do that 'till they give you short/skipable add, or even better 'till you’re so god damn angry, that you turn off the app.

    • PracticalParrot@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m so used to adblock that when I see an ad, I either immediately close the app in frustration or spend the next god knows how long blocking the ads. Still can’t block YT ads on my TV so I don’t use YT there. And if I must… cast from my phone or PC where it is blocked.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
    8·
    1 year ago

    I got fed up with ads back in the early 90s and it fitted with we got a VCR so we could skip the several minute long ad segments.

    Same with ads on websites, started using ad blockers in the 2000s when sites became unusable because of ads.

    A few years ago YouTube went from occasionally showing one 5 second ad, and all ads longer than 5 seconds could be skipped. To multiple five second ads I got enough, and now it’s getting as bad as flow TV.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 year ago

      Or Firefox with an adblocker. I haven’t watched an ad in what feels like a decade now.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    You say that, but…

    From the FAQ section:

    How do you know if a user is watching the PreShow video?
    We use proprietary facial recognition technology. That’s why it’s so easy to pause the viewing, and resume it later, at your leisure.

    But that’s voluntary. It’s not like you have to use that service. You could just buy a movie ticket.

    However… If (or more like when) Google decides to go and add eye tracking to the JavaScript idle detection API, we’re all fucked. Sit back and watch this whole five minute YouTube ad… or let us make sure you’re watching a 30-second one.