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> where ads are occasional, but less intrusive One out of three videos on Youtube short, several per video on Youtube, Facebook and X sponsored post are hidden
by Sayrus 2y ago
> where ads are occasional, but less intrusive
One out of three videos on Youtube short, several per video on Youtube, Facebook and X sponsored post are hidden within the timeline. That's not even talking about how much ads is outside those walled-gardens, for instance searching for something where SEO is heavily gamed like cooking recipes ends up returning websites where half the page is ads or sponsored content. I typed "buy pc" on Google and the first 4 results are paid ads labelled Sponsored, the first organic result is outside my screen. How are they not intrusive on walled-gardens?
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- eastbound 2y agoWe’ve entirely lost the war and some people are still fighting the wording of the declaration. > the first organic result is outside my screen. And it’s only a referral blogpost. Is it even worth fighting? What have we won by attempting this fight? The Internet is unusable today.
- Sayrus 2y ago> And it’s only a referral blogpost. Is it even worth fighting? What have we won by attempting this fight? The Internet is unusable today. Actually for me it offered ldlc.com which is a fairly good result. With an ad-blocker, it's the first result. Is it worth fighting? If the alternative is a web that is unusable today, yes. Will it prevent the enshittifiction of the web in the long term? Probably not.