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I bought YouTube premium because I was sick of seeing their stupid adverts.

atonse 5y ago
That should be in their S-1. "We are a growing lead-gen platform. We have a growing user base of people that are annoyed as hell from our advertisements, so they just pay for subscriptions at other sites to make them go away."
- melomal 5y ago
  It's nice to see those Youtube ads paying off....
callamdelaney 5y ago
I get grammarly. It's been years and tens of thousands (probably) of grammarly ads. It's like they'll never work out that I will never, ever, ever need or want their product in a thousand lifetimes.
- orhmeh09 5y ago
  Sorry! This is the absolute best that the world’s highest-paid gaggle of engineers and researchers have been able to come up with in their work on so-called “ad tech.”
- nine_k 5y ago
  You are not the target audience. You are a collateral damage. Ad tech targeting is less like a sniper rifle and more like a shotgun: it mostly hits the target, and then some area around it. I suspect that the sniper rifle-type ads, where possible due to deep profiling, would spend less of advertisers' money, but would feel incredibly creepy, lowering their efficacy.
  - callamdelaney 5y ago
    Men between a certain age is a pretty none specific target audience.
shoto_io 5y ago
YouTube ads are so ridiculously annoying these days. I get Peloton ads ALL the time. I will never, ever buy one. And I ALWAYS press skip. But still, the amazing AI keeps showing me f*ing Peloton ads.
- remir 5y ago
  On my end I'm bombarded by these "start an online business" ads that seems to grow like weed.
  - Bombthecat 5y ago
    I feel like those online Shop things are the new "you can be a rockstar / Youtube star". Everyone feels like they can be rich or famous. And i think shopify is massively profiting from that.99 percent of rhe Shops there dont make any money..
- j4yav 5y ago
  I got a 40 minute ad yesterday, entirely in Korean (a language I don’t speak.)
jordache 5y ago
coinbase ads have been getting more and more annoying. It used to be just that melody, set to some screen animations. Then they've added sound effects - button pushes, machinery sounds, to the same ad, I assume in attempt to get my attention.
pwned1 5y ago
ublock = no youtube ads.
- greenyoda 5y ago
  But please look for "uBlock Origin" (the one maintained by the original author), not "uBlock" (which was taken over by someone else and allows "acceptable" ads): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
DaedPsyker 5y ago
"if you manage a team you've got to try monday.com" FFS I don't manage a team! I use whatever management buys, now stop asking me every video! That, grammerly and now hello fresh, making me greatly consider premium. Maybe that's Google secret plan, annoy us to death so we subscribe.

That should be in their S-1. "We are a growing lead-gen platform. We have a growing user base of people that are annoyed as hell from our advertisements, so they just pay for subscriptions at other sites to make them go away."

melomal 5y ago
It's nice to see those Youtube ads paying off....

callamdelaney 5y ago

I get grammarly. It's been years and tens of thousands (probably) of grammarly ads. It's like they'll never work out that I will never, ever, ever need or want their product in a thousand lifetimes.

orhmeh09 5y ago
Sorry! This is the absolute best that the world’s highest-paid gaggle of engineers and researchers have been able to come up with in their work on so-called “ad tech.”
nine_k 5y ago
You are not the target audience. You are a collateral damage. Ad tech targeting is less like a sniper rifle and more like a shotgun: it mostly hits the target, and then some area around it. I suspect that the sniper rifle-type ads, where possible due to deep profiling, would spend less of advertisers' money, but would feel incredibly creepy, lowering their efficacy.
- callamdelaney 5y ago
  Men between a certain age is a pretty none specific target audience.

shoto_io 5y ago

YouTube ads are so ridiculously annoying these days. I get Peloton ads ALL the time. I will never, ever buy one. And I ALWAYS press skip. But still, the amazing AI keeps showing me f*ing Peloton ads.

remir 5y ago
On my end I'm bombarded by these "start an online business" ads that seems to grow like weed.
- Bombthecat 5y ago
  I feel like those online Shop things are the new "you can be a rockstar / Youtube star". Everyone feels like they can be rich or famous. And i think shopify is massively profiting from that.99 percent of rhe Shops there dont make any money..
j4yav 5y ago
I got a 40 minute ad yesterday, entirely in Korean (a language I don’t speak.)

jordache 5y ago

coinbase ads have been getting more and more annoying. It used to be just that melody, set to some screen animations. Then they've added sound effects - button pushes, machinery sounds, to the same ad, I assume in attempt to get my attention.

pwned1 5y ago

ublock = no youtube ads.

greenyoda 5y ago
But please look for "uBlock Origin" (the one maintained by the original author), not "uBlock" (which was taken over by someone else and allows "acceptable" ads): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

DaedPsyker 5y ago

"if you manage a team you've got to try monday.com" FFS I don't manage a team! I use whatever management buys, now stop asking me every video! That, grammerly and now hello fresh, making me greatly consider premium. Maybe that's Google secret plan, annoy us to death so we subscribe.