I’ve been blocking ads for so long, I didn’t even know what they look like nowadays. A buddy of mine started a YouTube stream on Discord’s YouTube app recently and apparently, my ad blockers couldn’t prevent ads from that application, so they popped up anyway.
And apparently, my first ad (of 2 ads) was a 3-hour infomercial about mental health care or something.
And apparently, ads were custom for each viewer.
So while my friend is streaming a video for our voice chat group to watch, I’m sitting here, letting a 3-hour infomercial play and getting confused at my friends’ commentary on this supposed video.
I got about 10 minutes in before I noticed the “skip” button at the bottom of the screen. I wasn’t really paying attention, but I noticed that my friends were laughing and commenting at weird places in the video and I was struggling to make sense of their discussion.
Who the hell posts a 3-hour ad before a YouTube video?!
Yeah, its so stupid. And Youtube wonders why people agressively ad block.
I forgrt the web even has ads most of the time.
I watched ads on YouTube for far longer than I had to, because at the time they weren’t that bad and it kinda supported the creators… they showed me a single Prager U ad and that was the last YouTube ad I ever saw. Fuck em.
