• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Having so many ads I couldn’t even get to the content or comments was my final straw. I sideloaded uYou through Altstore and now have a great time without all the BS. No, Alphabet, your cesspit app full of ads isn’t going to make me subscribe to Premium. It’s done the opposite.

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      1 year ago

      A pre-roll ad and a banner was obnoxious enough for me to start using ubo on desktop, on mobile I kept using the official app because newpipe is not a very nice user experience.

      When they started to play two long pre-roll ads, one mid-roll ad for every couple of minutes of content, and a post-roll ad I switched to NewPipe and Libretube. I felt like the content-to-ad ratio was close to 1 recently. Way worse than it ever was on TV.

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        1 year ago

        It’s insulting to its audience. Apparently that’s the new cool thing in marketing. I can’t wait to see this house of cards collapse completely. I honestly hope it takes half the industry with it. Too many greedy sycophants out there.

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          1 year ago

          Insulting is right. When I just want to quickly look at a recipe, or how the one guy removes the crank pulley from his Miata I don’t want to have to watch 1 minute worth of ads just to see a still image or 10 seconds of the video. Fuck right off, YouTube!

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            1 year ago

            I knew I liked you. A Miata RF is my mid life crisis dream car. Just want it to be EV powered with a manual stick.

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              1 year ago

              Oh man, that car is so beautiful. And I love the rf mechanic, it just looks so sci-fi to me. Sadly I’m too tall to fit into one. Can just admire them from afar