HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads".
Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe
HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this
Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe
HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this
So your conversation actually goes:
HN/Reddit: "I would love to just give you the money directly instead of watching ads in exchange for advertizers giving you money."
Companies: "Sure, here's the ad-free version. You have to pay 20 times as much as the advertizers do though."
HN/Reddit: "Wait, what? That's bullshit. Why?"
Companies: "Fuck you, that's why."
Companies: "Sure, here's the ad-free version. You have to pay 20 times as much as the advertissers do though."
anticensor: "OK, then; what if I pay the same amount as for the ad-free one, and you show me twice as many ads as before?"
Companies: "OK, deal."
Not on my dime.
Yes, I just bought a mattress, of course I'm interested in getting another one.
Oh, a new fridge! Always good to have a spare! Thanks Google!
Modern internet is absolutely unbearable without adblock.
Sure, if one clicks on an ad then immediately buys a product, then perhaps that would be more straightforward. However, I just do not think that is very common, but I could be wrong.
It just seems like there is some kind of false notion that if a company creates ads and the company has an increase in sales, then it must be because of the ads, when in reality, it could be entirely coincidental.
Tangental, but I intentionally boycott products that have annoying ads. I will walk to the ends of the Earth before I use GEICO, for example.
There are several levels of ads on YouTube and paying for YouTube premium only gets rid of one.
Or just don't watch videos that are littered with sponsors ads and maybe creators will do it less.
Maybe my expectations are biased by subscribing to Nebula? And for those who do, Medlife Crisis just posted a fun video on the placebo effect featuring great (fake) sponsor callouts.
They do make videos where the entire thing is sponsored by the company whose product is the subject of the video. But it's like one or two a month.
And 5-10 seconds to mention merch is annoying sometimes but doesn't really change the nature of the video.