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"Product placement" sounds vague/subjective - are the posts on Hacker News 'product placement'? I think, on average, most people would prefer a form of product

• raincole 2y ago
  > "Product placement" sounds vague/subjective - are the posts on Hacker News 'product placement'? This is my point. You can't write an algorithm to filter them out. > I think, on average, most people would prefer a form of product placement to privacy-abusing, experience-debilitating, irrelevant ads. Perhaps. Personally I'd like my ads to look like ads instead of like contents. I'd like to watch a 15-sec irrelevant ads before a tutorial than a video titled like a free tutorial that you need to watch to the middle way to realize a paid plugin is needed.
  • cgriswald 2y ago
    > I'd like to watch a 15-sec irrelevant ads before a tutorial than a video titled like a free tutorial that you need to watch to the middle way to realize a paid plugin is needed. If I'm going to be wasting my time, I'd rather it be a single direct waste that I can downvote on search results and even block the creator from my future searches, rather than having my time wasted across all videos, forever. (Additionally without ad-driven algorithms videos might be shorter and more to the point.)