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Super agree. Its either "I'm bored out of my wits" or "i'm exhausted with my kids" Folks with more time and energy on their hands have managed spend it all on

Super agree. Its either "I'm bored out of my wits" or "i'm exhausted with my kids" Folks with more time and energy on their hands have managed spend it all on a broad variety of rabbit holes. Folks with kids have managed to wither whatever minutes were left away, looking at the other group's reports on their rabbit hole expeditions Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

colordrops 6y ago
> Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube. I'm finding that I'm not using youtube that much anymore. It wasn't really a conscious decision - the annoyance pushed away my reptilian brain.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  I barely use it on my phone anymore and on my desktop I installed an adblocker again (before I only used uMatrix). But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.
  - akiselev 6y ago
    > But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off. Or a growing towards a majority and Google is in a deathspiral trying to meet quarterly growth targets by extracting more attention from an audience that is catching on faster than it is growing in size. One can hope.
  - jimktrains2 6y ago
    I have ublock for Firefox on android and it works as expected.
jcelerier 6y ago
I don't have kids and I don't think I've gotten bored once - I had the time to watch a whopping two TV shows this year.
- minot 6y ago
  Early summer was strange. I finished watching seasons one through four of the expanse on Amazon.com Kept getting side tracked because it takes a dystopian science fiction set hundreds of years in the future to discuss basic income and climate change in television.
- ikornaselur 6y ago
  I'm honestly struggling with finding more time to do stuff and I don't have any kids. I have loads of side projects I want to work on, loads of games I want to play, books I want to read, movies and tv shows I want to watch and I have a relationship takes up a lot of my time. I was doing Adventure of Code this year and I haven't managed to finish the last 7 days because I haven't had time for it yet. Though I strongly believe that if I was single, it would be a very different story and I'd be very bored and restless with all this time. Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference.
  - hhggfdss 6y ago
    > Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference. Yes, I am a newlywed, married just before the lockdowns started in a stroke of great luck. My wife and I have fared pretty well, even though she is in a vulnerable group and so we have been in isolation together since March. We have kept ourselves entertained but don't have kids yet. It might be a little strange adapting to regular married life after this. We went right into isolation after our honeymoon.. Really the biggest toll this pandemic has taken is on my liver
op03 6y ago
Thats only if you believe raising kids isn't a rabbit hole expedition. Quite a few people are just too confused, clueless and unconscious of what expeditions they are on.
- deleted 6y ago
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DanBC 6y ago
> together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube. Just in case there's anyone from Google reading this: I'm tolerant of ads. I'd like the option to "skip the first ad" but watch the second. Or just put the short ad first. Sometimes I don't mind watching a 15 second ad, but I really don't want to watch a 4 minute ad.
- ryanianian 6y ago
  This is especially true if I'm not even sure I want to watch the video. If I follow a link to a random youtube video there's a 50/50 chance I'll stop watching after 10 seconds of content. Having to watch even 5 seconds of ads before that makes me avoid following links in the first place.

colordrops 6y ago

> Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube. I'm finding that I'm not using youtube that much anymore. It wasn't really a conscious decision - the annoyance pushed away my reptilian brain.

read_if_gay_ 6y ago
I barely use it on my phone anymore and on my desktop I installed an adblocker again (before I only used uMatrix). But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.
- akiselev 6y ago
  > But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off. Or a growing towards a majority and Google is in a deathspiral trying to meet quarterly growth targets by extracting more attention from an audience that is catching on faster than it is growing in size. One can hope.
- jimktrains2 6y ago
  I have ublock for Firefox on android and it works as expected.

jcelerier 6y ago

I don't have kids and I don't think I've gotten bored once - I had the time to watch a whopping two TV shows this year.

minot 6y ago
Early summer was strange. I finished watching seasons one through four of the expanse on Amazon.com Kept getting side tracked because it takes a dystopian science fiction set hundreds of years in the future to discuss basic income and climate change in television.
ikornaselur 6y ago
I'm honestly struggling with finding more time to do stuff and I don't have any kids. I have loads of side projects I want to work on, loads of games I want to play, books I want to read, movies and tv shows I want to watch and I have a relationship takes up a lot of my time. I was doing Adventure of Code this year and I haven't managed to finish the last 7 days because I haven't had time for it yet. Though I strongly believe that if I was single, it would be a very different story and I'd be very bored and restless with all this time. Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference.
- hhggfdss 6y ago
  > Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference. Yes, I am a newlywed, married just before the lockdowns started in a stroke of great luck. My wife and I have fared pretty well, even though she is in a vulnerable group and so we have been in isolation together since March. We have kept ourselves entertained but don't have kids yet. It might be a little strange adapting to regular married life after this. We went right into isolation after our honeymoon.. Really the biggest toll this pandemic has taken is on my liver

op03 6y ago

Thats only if you believe raising kids isn't a rabbit hole expedition. Quite a few people are just too confused, clueless and unconscious of what expeditions they are on.

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DanBC 6y ago

> together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube. Just in case there's anyone from Google reading this: I'm tolerant of ads. I'd like the option to "skip the first ad" but watch the second. Or just put the short ad first. Sometimes I don't mind watching a 15 second ad, but I really don't want to watch a 4 minute ad.

ryanianian 6y ago
This is especially true if I'm not even sure I want to watch the video. If I follow a link to a random youtube video there's a 50/50 chance I'll stop watching after 10 seconds of content. Having to watch even 5 seconds of ads before that makes me avoid following links in the first place.