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  • celerate@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldYouTube cracking on ad blockers.
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    1 year ago

    Dear YouTube, if anyone there ever reads this.

    I tried not to block ads, I would let the preroll go and usually not skip it.

    I started skipping ads when they started getting long. I recall some were several minutes long at times.

    I started leaving videos part way through when there were mid-roll ads, and those got long enough that I’d often forget what I was even watching.

    I started blocking the ads outright when I would be watching a relaxing video, and a very loud mid-roll ad would blow out my goddamn eardrums.

    Fuck you YouTube. You abused your users, you chased off good content creators, and now you’re offering people no carrot and all stick. How about you offer to match the volume of the ads to the videos, limit the length of ads to something reasonable, and nicely tell viewers that you are making ads less annoying and that unblocking the ads helps pay the content creators.













  • My boss paid for contacts from a lead generation company. Said company provided us with a bunch of names and phone numbers, and said they had called to make sure the clients were interested before providing us the list.

    When I called, I would get told off and the prospective clients would tell me they had never heard of us and didn’t get any calls prior. I reported this to my boss. He went back to the leads company with this and they told him “oh, we definitely called these people” and that was good enough for my boss.

    Thank God he scrapped that lead generation plan. I don’t know how much he paid the lead generation company, but I’d wager they wrote a web scraper for school and ISP contacts and just sent him that list.



  • My parents raised me with unfortunate views, as did the churches they forced me to attend. It was only through life experience that I came to realize they were wrong.

    Violence didn’t help me, it made me feel isolated and more inclined to think that those using violence against me didn’t have rational arguments against my views.

    Violence doesn’t win arguments, and it should be a last resort, using it for instant gratification is a sure strategy to prolong conflict.