I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • kenkenken
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    73 months ago

    An idea for YouTube: make a way to watch ads separately and earn minutes, and then to spend earned minutes on watching actual videos without ads, lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      So that you can leave ads running on your computer while you go do other stuff? Doesn’t seem like a good deal for Google.

      • osaerisxero
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        73 months ago

        Google doesn’t care about eyeballs, just watch time, ad dollars, and click through rates.

      • The Pantser
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        53 months ago

        It didn’t work out so well for Perk when they paid you to watch ads. But then again I was making $100 a week from my phone farm back in the day. Had 30 phones earning points at a time.

    • Jilanico
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      63 months ago

      Don’t give them ideas. If they had a reasonable number of ads, it wouldn’t be a problem, but they are absolutely out of control.