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Same. About half of Youtube ads that I get on my AppleTV (no adblock there sadly) are now AI generated scam products.

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It’s crazy how bad it has gotten and some channels have like 10 ads if it’s a long enough video

YouTube premium lite has been a game changer. Otherwise I would have given up on watching on Apple TV

Signs of collapse

Just checked my ad history (https://www.clrn.org/how-to-see-recently-viewed-ads-on-youtu...);

Google YouTube TV for NFL Sunday ticket Robinhood Some dog tracker thing Detergent Peloton Liberty mutual Some truck brand Foam insulation

Other than how to buy gold ads and sandy hook promise, my ads are very mild. YMMV

For some reason all the YouTube ads on my TV are very very normal ads for well known companies and products.

As soon as I disable my adblocker on my PC though I only get fake scam ads.

And sadly I have to compete with them trying to sell physical products on YouTube. Just no way

My TV has ad block for youtube. I pay 20 minutes salary per month and see no adverts at all, on TV, on phone, on computer.

I never understand why well-paid HN commentators refuse to pay for their entertainment.

On the web at large, sure use an ad blocker, there's no choice there. There is on youtube though.

I think it really depends on how much you use it. For example, there is no way that I would pay for Facebook. It annoys me greatly that I’m forced to use it a few times per year, and I have to sell all of my data for it, but unfortunately I don’t pay just to avoid data gathering about me, because it happens anyway, no matter what I do.

But I pay happily for YouTube, because I use it daily, and my home country’s propaganda was annoying enough to make it worth.

Paying Google to not attempt to scam me is... not something I plan to do.

> I never understand why well-paid HN commentators refuse to pay for their entertainment.

People don't want to pay (help) people they don't like. YouTube ads do not feel fair, they feel manipulative and unethical. It's expected that most people wouldn't want to willingly engage with that kind of asshattery.

Contrast that with platforms like twitch. I'd say the average twitch viewer (that interacts with streams/chats) has a slightly negative view of Twitch. But many will still willingly donate dozens of subs to streamers they like. This removes ads for other people, not themselves.

People think YouTube is greedy and untrustworthy. Why would you willingly feed that machine?

I don't pay because it feels like paying protection money to the mafia. "Here's an annoyance/danger we created for you. If you pay us, we'll stop doing it."

on the other hand, it's how their business model is able to work? People get wayyyy more views on YouTube than they do on Patreon or federated platforms or Nebula or Floatplane or or or or or or or

You don't see any adverts on youtube if you don't watch youtube.

My local cinema charges me to watch a film. Sure I could sneak in through the fire escape.

That's not paying protection money.

If they say "you can watch for free if you attend our timeshare presentation first", then that's still not paying protection money.

If I want a magician to entertain me at a party, it's not paying protection money. If they say "you can watch for free but only if you listen to me drivel on about some cause first" that doesn't either.

People on HN are unwiling to pay people to entertain them. Its astounding.

Does your local cinema have pre-film adverts?

Trailers always begin at 10 minutes after the start time of the film, so that's when I turn up.

I like trailers.

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