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Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
I noticed it over about a two month period, youtube ads are almost always doubled, and on longer videos there can be 4 to 8 ads.
So OK, first thought, greed. That doesn't satisfy my internal reality meter, which often can lead to conspiracy theories.
But to attribute it to corporate knowledge of something most of us don't know about is a reasonable explanation, while leaving what that "something" is in the dark.
It's becoming natural enough for me to intensely wait with the mouse icon on the erase button to turn white so I can click it while ignoring the ads themselves that I've adapted my rage down a bit, after all, they do need to make a living too, but that implies that they weren't before.
Assuming they suddenly needed twice as much revenue as before why would that be?
I admit to being a youtube junkie, because it's the opposite process from TV. With TV you watch what they set before you (Or record it) whereas youtube is more like a supermarket where you rush in and find what you are looking for and BAM! suddenly you are eating what you went in for (Or in this case watching it).
Granted cable and satellite TV has a wide buffet table of delights, or indoctrination, depending on how you view it, but still they control what's available.
YT does that too with their twisted ideas of "Community standards" but one can adjust to finding the raw bleeding edge of what they allow.
Anyway, if a different websight of the type that let the viewers decide what's right and wrong instead of some far left whacko hoax believers filtering everything that would be a good reason to double and triple the ads, as sane people left youtube behind.
It would serve them right.
So OK, first thought, greed. That doesn't satisfy my internal reality meter, which often can lead to conspiracy theories.
But to attribute it to corporate knowledge of something most of us don't know about is a reasonable explanation, while leaving what that "something" is in the dark.
It's becoming natural enough for me to intensely wait with the mouse icon on the erase button to turn white so I can click it while ignoring the ads themselves that I've adapted my rage down a bit, after all, they do need to make a living too, but that implies that they weren't before.
Assuming they suddenly needed twice as much revenue as before why would that be?
I admit to being a youtube junkie, because it's the opposite process from TV. With TV you watch what they set before you (Or record it) whereas youtube is more like a supermarket where you rush in and find what you are looking for and BAM! suddenly you are eating what you went in for (Or in this case watching it).
Granted cable and satellite TV has a wide buffet table of delights, or indoctrination, depending on how you view it, but still they control what's available.
YT does that too with their twisted ideas of "Community standards" but one can adjust to finding the raw bleeding edge of what they allow.
Anyway, if a different websight of the type that let the viewers decide what's right and wrong instead of some far left whacko hoax believers filtering everything that would be a good reason to double and triple the ads, as sane people left youtube behind.
It would serve them right.