PSA If you hate adverts and watch You Tube, Opera browser blocks the ads

LionAquaLooper

Remember the days when Youtube wasn't owned by Google and everything was free?  Good times.

Now it's all about maximising ad revenue.  You'd think that Google makes so much money pre and even post tax that they don't need to hassle their users for paid subscriptions, or even need to get other companies' money for ad space on YT.  It's just fking greed, is what it is. 

The worst thing is - the number of ads will only increase going forward.  Just wait and see.      

Snap

Great thread here, thanks for starting it. I've now installed and really like Vivaldi. It's like the old days when sites weren't full of bloated shite!
nice one

scrumhalf

If you see ads on YouTube do you actually remember what they are for are are you waiting, oblivious, until you can click "skip ads"?

I wonder how effective they really are?

EricTheWeary

scrumhalf said:

If you see ads on YouTube do you actually remember what they are for are are you waiting, oblivious, until you can click "skip ads"?

I wonder how effective they really are?

But that's true of most advertising yet it's still a massive business. I suspect that waiting to skip possibly makes you pay more attention if anything. 

rze99

scrumhalf said:

If you see ads on YouTube do you actually remember what they are for are are you waiting, oblivious, until you can click "skip ads"?

I wonder how effective they really are?

rze99

I wonder about their effectiveness too. I guess the marketeers have their stats and it must produce returns.

If the BBC get the license fee pulled there'll be nowhere left to be entertained without ads. I cannot bear them. 

LionAquaLooper

scrumhalf said:

If you see ads on YouTube do you actually remember what they are for are are you waiting, oblivious, until you can click "skip ads"?

I wonder how effective they really are?

Not effective on me one bit.  When an ad comes on I look away from the screen, don't listen to it, and only look again when the Skid ad button comes on.

In fact, it makes me want to avoid their product even more because it genuinely feels like I'm being nagged to do/buy something over and over and over and over again.