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I like the idea and agree with the arguments to some extent. Improving performance of ads by collecting information on how one uses a service - sure. Monitoring
by isodev 3y ago
I like the idea and agree with the arguments to some extent. Improving performance of ads by collecting information on how one uses a service - sure.
Monitoring one's every move, click and activity across 3rd party websites... then combining and selling the entire "persona" - no, no, no.
It also feels like we've reached the end of the rope when it comes to targeted ads, it was fun, but we need an alternative that doesn't depend on people being transformed into a "behavioural commodity".
And also YouTube running fancy scripts to detect ads loading - my browser, my choice!
- InCityDreams 3y agoI am in the process of moving to newpipe.net - no ads. More importantly not the same 5 ads being recycled at me over and over. Why tf yt would think I'm into gamesm i don't know, but if that's 'targetting', they missed - and lost a customer.
- tjpnz 3y agoThe easy, albeit not simple, solution is for the bulk of people using these services to pay and to make it frictionless for everyone who can. Getting the companies offering said services to start treating their users as customers while not double dipping will be the hard part. I'm sceptical the FAANGs of the world are capable of this, which is why I'm watching Meta's "experiment" in the EU with some interest.
- zmgsabst 3y agoI used to spend $100+ on super-chats a month, of which Google made $30+. But they needed to double-dip, insisting on showing ads or giving them an extra $10. So I stopped super-chatting on YouTube.