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Friday Fun Thread for October 27, 2023

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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I'm not complaining that content has to be monetized. But youtube did make it work for a long time with their existing model, so they must have been doing at least somewhat alright.

And there are ads that I'd be happy with, like non-video ads. @netstack mentioned a video-only adblocker, which I'd be happy with.

And lots of content creators I watch have sponsorship worked into the video. That's fine, too. But youtube's current solution is the most obtrusive and debilitating way of going about it, for all reasons I stated above and that others stated throughout this thread, that just about ruins the platform for me.

Google became the advertising behemoth it is today by creating an ad network that promised to be (and for a long time delivered on being) non-intrusive at a time when online advertising was getting extremely obnoxious. It's a bit disappointing to see them stoop to these practices now that they have no real competition, but such is the way of things. Maybe a new competitor will arise to take advantage of the situation like they once did.