yeah, although sibling commenters are complaining about the type of adverts seen on today's platforms being different; namely that byte and computer shopper had

yeah, although sibling commenters are complaining about the type of adverts seen on today's platforms being different; namely that byte and computer shopper had ads that were 'useful' or 'interesting' by some definition, compared to youtube or facebook. i think this often reflects more on the viewer, and the type of content they access, than on the platform. depending on the videos i watch, along with some judicious approval or disapproval via the thumbs up/down buttons presented and skipping boring or irrelevant ads and vice-versa, i now am presented with much more appropriate and interesting or informative adverts for products and services i wouldn't have known existed and so on. there's a lot to be said for targeted advertising, whether through specific platforms or media (such as only advertising in byte magazine and therefore reaching a specific audience of tech-literates) or via big data style ad platforms such as adsense on youtube.