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I find Youtube advertising to be way worse, primarily because I can’t skip the ad, I have to sit their for some minimum number of seconds, and the ads never see

I find Youtube advertising to be way worse, primarily because I can’t skip the ad, I have to sit their for some minimum number of seconds, and the ads never seem relevant. Compare that to Facebook, where I can just keep scrolling. I’ve also found a few hobbies through Facebook ads, I think their targeting is pretty good. No advertising company wants you to see ads you don’t care about. It just wastes the advertisers money. Ads that are boosted are still trying to target audiences that will actually click on the ad.

elorant 8y ago
You don't need to skip the ad. Just install uBlock Origin and optionally uMatrix and there will be no ads anymore, either on YT or any other site for that matter.
- ams6110 8y ago
  Or pay for YouTube Red.
- a1369209993 8y ago
  I'll chime in to recommend youtube-dl[0], which in addition to fixing ads, also means you have a local copy that can't be stolen by copyright trolls or otherwise bitrotted. 0: http://youtube-dl.org/ http://youtube-dl.org/
beauzero 8y ago
...I pay for keeping ads off and generally have one of the 4k relaxation/outdoors or old Warren Miller videos playing. I really enjoy that specific interaction. As for Facebook, I am off, except for occassionally logging in to retrieve messages. I can't find a way to interact with it personally. I just don't enjoy it anymore.