Comment by maerF0x0

1 month ago

Just wait till you have to watch N adds before the door will unlock. And good luck getting it open in a power/internet outage :lol:

Millions of people sit through minutes of the worst ads I've ever seen to watch mr beast exploit homeless people. We're boned.

  • How does anyone watch youtube these days? I wouldn't mind seeing an ad or even 2, but it feels like youtube is singling me out for special treatment. I'm not going to watch anything if i'm scared a 30 second ad will interrupt the video.

    • I subscribe. I earn a decent amount working in tech, I’m more than happy to pay for content.

    • i use the rss feed of the channels i am subscribed to and download the videos i want to watch with yt-dlp. i may browse the homepage every so often but i just copy the links and download them.

    • It might be coincidence, but I've noticed the ads get slightly less obnoxious if I religiously abandon the video and close the browser tab any time the ad is more than 10 seconds long and unskippable. I'm sure they're monitoring closely to see what people will and won't tolerate.

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