Modern advertising has become so dystopian, and all of these companies (but especially Google) refuse to reflect on how badly they've made the experience at the expense of outdated, ineffective practices and a nonstop degradation of the platform itself from a user perspective.
Google can't complain about basic human nature to try avoiding something as grating as the kind of video ads they deliver, nor can they complain when people use third party tools to provide objectively better user experiences than what their platform offers
regardless of advertising.
All the energy against adblockers would have been better spent bothering to improve Youtube itself because instead all they've done is made it worse for everyone
but advertisers. It's awful as a viewer trying to find anything that could justify their advert waterboarding tactics, and numerous creators regularly come out against how Youtube handles basics like content delivery, discovery, and search.
In return, said advertisers made Google
their bitch during the adpocalypse back when Youtube monopolized online video content while cable was rapidly declining, there was barely the streaming war with advertising that we have today, and prior to tiktok.
Personally, I would have loved it if they spun the situation around on advertising companies saying since that everything is targeted and to blame themselves for having such deplorable customers (i.e. the other 99% of people not perpetually on twitter and actually buy their products and services) who want to watch violence and "hate speech."
In any case, Youtube's stuck resorting to serving fake ads, scams, pornography, violence, every imaginable kind of adertisement that contradict the absurdly strict standards they force upon the content creators.
Was trying to find a song this morning on my phone. As I searched through the different videos, I got an Ad for each one I clicked on, sometimes two. Most were 5 seconds long, unskippable, but a couple were 15 seconds long. I never stayed on any video for more than a couple seconds. Over the top annoying and in my opinion, extreme. I dont mind a commercial to help pay for a service that Im not paying for, but that many, so quickly, is just obnoxious and makes me want to omit youtube from my searches altogether.
They could have gone back to full blown 90s/00s banner ads out the ass and it would still be worlds better than haphazardly shoving video ads everywhere when the very nature of their website
forces people to constantly flip through videos because the service itself does such a horrible job at adequately delivering desired content in the first place.
If Google weren't completely shit, then they could at least just autoplay muted ads nonstop in a
separate picture-in-picture window on desktop or under the main video on mobile like how Fextralife does to pump their streaming numbers. Nobody's paying attention to ads or buying because of them either way, no matter how much dipshit ad companies wish that were so.
I was using revanced on my phone for a while until I kept getting messages saying not available.
Now I have to use my brave browser on my phone to not see ads on my phone. Pain in the ass
Have you tried updating Revanced recently?
I was having errors not too long ago, but they changed how it works now where it uses their own MicroG alternative called GmsCore:
www.pcgamer.com
