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This is what I'm most afraid of. Ads are starting to quickly plague the internet. They've already screwed up TV and made it completely unwatchable and internet
by karpathy 14y ago
This is what I'm most afraid of. Ads are starting to quickly plague the internet. They've already screwed up TV and made it completely unwatchable and internet is next. YouTube is already extremely annoying to navigate.
I've recently gotten to the habit of having two browsing windows open. If in one of them I stumble across something that forces me to watch 30 seconds of ad (which happens increasingly often), I flip focus, continue browsing something else and come back to the other window later.
It's great to hear they can now start to ensure I watch the ads. What's next, API that checks if you have system sound muted or too low?
- grdn 14y agoFor example spotify already forces you to listen ads, if you decrease sound during an ad they pause it.
- malandrew 14y agoWow... I can think of few ways to completely destroy goodwill with users than that. If someone has decided that they aren't interested in listening to an ad, enough so to spend the time to lower the volume, you sure as hell are not going to elicit warm fuzzy feelings by actively ignoring their wishes.