YouTube doesn’t care if we actually watch ads but they have a limited ability to completely lie to advertisers (the real customers for everything now) about wha

YouTube doesn’t care if we actually watch ads but they have a limited ability to completely lie to advertisers (the real customers for everything now) about what is happening, despite all the self reporting. It’s tempting to just let them all spin in circles whIke me and my eyeballs leave the room. Let YouTube rabbit hole itself with unlooked for autoplays wasting their bandwidth and wasting advertising budget from megacorp. Self reporting on the total effectiveness of advertising and marketing departments everywhere will gradually hollow out budgets for everything else and then humanity returns to the Stone Age, problem solved! :bitter weepy laughter: Due to uptick in ad harassment and general user hostility I mostly quit using it many years ago. The last use case was the long format streams of rain, static, lofi etc. but those chill vibes are now interrupted with super obnoxious commercials that are 20% louder, and sometimes literally including screams or bangs that are intended to be attention grabbing. The internet is closer and closer to unusable these days.