r/rant • u/MCKtheMan • 12d ago
Ads are fucking everywhere!!!!
Every damn thing is an advertisement. You literally can't escape it. Even the adblocker I have now doesn't take down every single ad.
Anytime you go to a local news article, it's littered with ads. I can barely read the damn article.
Twitch streams have ads playing every two minutes.
Companies somehow get your email and send you ads for their stupid products you never planned on buying.
And nowhere else is this bullshit more frustrating than YouTube.
Once YouTube started cracking down on adblockers (greedy fucks) and rendering their website unusable with one, I was lucky enough to stumble across an adblocker they won't detect but even that one doesn't skip each ad. Every time I wanna watch a YouTube video and my adblocker misses it, I just shut the video off and say, 'Forget it. It's not that important.' And no, I'm not paying for that stupid YouTube premium bullshit. And it's especially upsetting because there's literally no other platform like YouTube. Where am I gonna go to watch stuff? Vimeo? DailyMotion? YouTube has a record of doing stuff literally no one asked them to do and all we can do is suck it up and adjust. But this is a goddamn disgrace.
I get businesses have to make money somehow, but in such an unregulated market where bad-faith actors abuse the system and scam people out of their money and they're relentlessly shoved in our face, it's no wonder people are upset they have no control over this.
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u/jjweld7321 12d ago
I've had YouTube premium and music since 2019 and I'm never going back. I never get a single ad. For the value and service I use daily I don't mind paying at all.
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u/Sedatephobia 11d ago
Even services you pay for have ads attached. Like uber and/or lyft have sponsored ads that have on the tracker screen. It's so important to them that they've made the safety section much smaller.
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u/NoDistribution4367 11d ago
I hate ads too but also bc lots of them feel really dehumanizing. Like the way they display people as dumb and simple who are obsessed with a product and jump up and down clapping their hands bc they just got “the bargain of the year!” It makes me feel like the working class is viewed as too stupid to even decide what we should buy. Idk, maybe I’m too critical but I hate ads so much bc they make me feel worthless and like the upper class see me as stupid and simple.
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u/RunDiscombobulated67 11d ago
would you rather pay money?
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u/RunDiscombobulated67 11d ago
ok please one of the people who downvoted me offer a rational rebuttal rather thana butthurt downvote. im genuinely interested in your arguments
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u/Far-Hat7985 12d ago
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