• Lumisal@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    I’m sorry y’all… I’m the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭

    They’re just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don’t know about now

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    Wonder why the mattress folks have ads on a ton of the podcasts I listen to but it doesn’t show up on yt much. You’d think a mattress ad would want a visual medium to display some features.

    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      6 days ago

      That’s the bit I hate the most about YouTube premium. You still have ad! What’s the fucking point is I have to get adblock for sponsors.

      Drop every single add, including embedded and we can have a discussion.

      I’m not going to be paying anyway though

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          6 days ago

          This is Lemmy. You were required to hate on anything that makes money or anyone attempting to monetize anything.

          Everything must be free.

          as much as I love self-hosting it does get f****** over the top with how up their own ass. A lot of people around here are.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            6 days ago

            This, plus the “anti-imperialism” which goes so far anti western imperialism that it goes round to being pro russian imperialism.

            It’s like a clown show here sometimes.

      • joelfromaus@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 days ago

        It’s funny that DeArrow has lead to me watching more videos with super click bait titles. It’s almost as if actually using the content for the title instead of some vague notion or off content question is more likely to pick a video to watch.

        I know there’s a reason channels do it but this is just my experience.

        • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          6 days ago

          Downside: Because you’re hiding the problem it doesn’t tell the creator in any way that people don’t like “arrow face” type thumbnails and clickbait titles.

          I also use it and it’s great, but… Yeah.

        • Mac@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 days ago

          It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring–everyone is clawing at your attention. “Pick me, pick me!”

          There are different options but i have it set so the thumbnail is a random frame from the video. I think titles are ‘normalized’ and sometimes community generated.

        • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          7 days ago

          It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The ‘arrow’ was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      7 days ago

      I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,

  • zout@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    7 days ago

    I’m missing Betterhelp, that one really expensive safety razor, and Bambulab for makers.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    7 days ago

    I’m proud to say that I block so many ads, this is the first time I’m seeing most of these names.