Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    companies that pay for the ads don’t care if you think you are immune to propaganda. they want you to watch.

    They don’t pay for ads just to waste my time. They buy ads to sell products.

    Forced advertising does not work on the kind of people who already do everything they can not to watch ads.

    if you think you are immune

    I’m literally not watching my phone if YouTube or other stream goes into ad mode. I do not see the ad.

    The imaginary part is that Google gets paid just as much for showing ads that don’t work as they do for showing ads that do work.

    Forced advertising is good for Google. It’s not good for the users nor the companies who pay Google.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      616·
      1 year ago

      That’s not true. Do you think, say, coca cola cares if you click on ads? Not all ads are looking for clicks. Some just want to get impressions.

      • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yes it is true. They don’t make an impression when I don’t see it.

        Call me old fashioned, but I have hands. I physically put my phone away because I do not want to watch the screen on my phone when the screen is showing an ad instead of showing what I wanted to see.

        Companies are paying Google to show me ads that I don’t see.

        Coca Cola’s brand recognition does not come from YouTube ads. It comes from signs in the real world, visual merchandising in stores and product placement in shows.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Absolutely. There are petrol pumps that play fucking ads. What do I do? Enter car. That’s horrifying to me.

          I haven’t had YouTube ads for a long time thanks to Firefox focus but if I did? I’d probably abandon the platform. Otherwise I’d just put my phone upside down for as long as the ad might be.

          You’re entirely correct. I refuse to ads. I wish billboards were illegal here. Ads are a fuck.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        This is only true for large, legacy companies like Coca Cola though. This doesn’t work for startups shilling shitty headphones, flashlights, VPNs, mobile games, etc because you’re unlikely to randomly come across their product when walking around the grocery store for example.