I get it too I'm a bad person for not accepting articles where every other paragraph is an ad.
But, the ad wasn't rendering in the page. So the user didnt need to suffer them, but the website owners still profited.
The only losers where ad buyers, who IMHO are exactly the ones that should be affected.until they realize that ads are not effective.
Someone should bring something like that for current platforms. Even for video like, a placeholder video with a tip, interesting fact or whatever, playing while the page load the real video.
Adnauseam actually clicks on every ad in the background, otherwise it's just a wrapper on uBlock Origin.
Ads are an evil that must be removed from the internet, and draining the wallets of companies using ads, without upside, would make them place less value on them.
Honest question, what do you envision will keep the free-internet free in lou of ads? Do you think a pay-walled internet, $3 for this site, $5 for this....would ever take off?
I too block ads, but feel like i'm slowly contributing to the death spiral of the internet
People born in 2000+ have no idea about that time
Of course it depends on what kind of videos you watch. But videos themselves are becoming more ad filled and lower effort for me.
I mainly consume software, gaming, cooking and hardware news videos.
Huge portion of human effort going to ads is really sad
Also, it’s actually easier to bypass the DRM crap than not, so they’ll continue to play in full resolution moving forward.
I want to point out I'm still an apt dweller unfortunately
You can also get discs from most libraries, book stores, many garage sails, ebay, for super cheap.
Alternatively, be like me, and have a $100 budget for N ~= 20 BluRays/40 DVDs. 2-3 can be new purchases if used isn't in stock.
It rapid rolls through video streams showing a second or two of each ad.
Presumably this is so Google can charge advertisers for impressions that don’t actually exist.
It's funny being a developer you don't watch much developer content like Primogen though I'm jealous these guys can just talk into a camera and make money. It is a skill to be likeable/mass appeal, being entertaining.
I already know the ad anyway, "this video is sponsored by SquareSpace". Bro I'm not going to use square space alright, I'm going to go into VS Code, make a SPA, host it on S3, buy a domain, connect the DNS, setup up ALB, CDN, setup RDS, cognito and then I'll have a website. Oh I also need github actions to do the build and push out the new changes.
Will throw this random comment in. Competition with the masses is hard. I paid a friend of mine $100 per song he produced for me (which were bad). But then I can go on Epidemic Sound and for $10/mo pick from a shit ton of good songs... how does a single creator compete with that.
Children sample harder than Public Enemy.
Google accumulated untold riches from those primitive ads yet they and Meta have tightened the screw a little bit more in each passing year.
Obviously, this isn't sustainable in itself.
> Google accumulated untold riches from those primitive ads yet they and Meta have tightened the screw a little bit more in each passing year.
Google doesn't have to actually make any content, they just link to it. This is relatively cheap.
If you're actually producing content (that isn't AI slop), you don't get the benefit of that sort of scale. There's no way to automate it.
Point being, the fact that google ads currently don't yield much revenue per click/view for most people isn't necessarily just because they are ads.
Even so, corporations will never voluntarily conclude that they're making enough ad money. Line must go up, forever, because reasons.
For websites that aren't costly to host (blogs, tutorials, ...), there's often no need to monetize at all. Non-commercial sites on some topic ran by passionate hobbyists are already typically higher quality than sites designed for profiting through adspam/SEO.
Donations and volunteer work (like Wikipedia) can be viable where there are non-negligible costs to cover. Grants and public funding can also help if it's a worthwhile cause.
Some institutions/people benefit indirectly in recognition from putting information online - like universities, product support forums, or a security researcher writing up an investigation into a malware campaign. Could consider this a form of advertising, but the resources are being used in a productive way rather than just intentionally wasting time.
Non-wasteful use of your time and computing resources are also fine by me, like torrent trackers that require you to maintain a minimum seed ratio. Google's CAPTCHAs are already sneakily giving you annotation work, just not paying for it.
I'd claim federation also helps, in that services that ostensibly benefit from being one massive site (due to network effect) can actually be split up into smaller more feasible nodes. I use SDF's Mastodon/Lemmy instances for example, and host a Matrix server.