I recently saw a kid playing on a tablet, and it was an ad for like every 2 minutes of playing. And they weren’t simple ads, but gamified ones that filled the screen and required user interaction to skip. The kid grumbled every time when they appeared, and quickly did the tasks to be back into the game. It was a really sad thing to see. I tried to talk to his parents about the possibility of blocking the ads, but they simply ignored me.
It’s damn near child abuse.
Yeah, not near, it just is.
Brainrot is a real thing, the studies have been done now.
Might as well have just drank for the whole pregnancy.
Thats comparable to the level of fucked up this will make your kid, just handing them a tablet to be their ‘parent’.
Considering they literally use the same psychological tricks that casinos use on gamblers… It’s 100% child abuse.
The children yearn for the ads
I know people who could block ads if they really wanted to, they aren’t that tech illiterate. They somehow just don’t see the issue, or have some excuse for why they need to use the ad-infested app over Firefox+uBlock.
I really don’t get it, internet ads are so obnoxious these days and often outright malware or scams, even on relatively reputable sites. Huge accessibility issue, too, the less able you get (e.g. because old age) the more disorienting and dangerous ads get.
I recently met someone who knew how to torrent and use Anna’s archive etc…but didn’t use an adblocker 😷
They didn’t even know adblockers exist
Probably a friend told them how to get the books but forgot to install ublock
It also means the browser extension stores do a very good job hiding adblockers unless you specifically seek them out
Not on Firefox, ublock origin is one of their recommended addons. Even on android
Exactly
Eeh not really, uBlock lite is in the “popular addons” section in the top 3 ans you can see it from the home page and searching “adblock” find you plenty of results so it’s just the user not asking himself how they can stop advertisement
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Honestly tech illiteratacy is a ploy by corpos to get people reliant on them, you can’t archive a piece of media if you dk how a file browser works
If you have executive function disorder and the point of ads is to wrestle your attention isn’t that in a small granular way preying upon disability?
Way more than a “small, granular” way.
I also don’t get how one of my friends (comp sci student) does not block ads on her phone, because of the user interface for YouTube. Also avoiding Vesktop (FOSS discord client)
Comp Sci notoriously just dumps kids straight into programming without ever getting them basic underlying knowledge about how a computer works. The only degree path I have personally seen that teaches PC back bench repair and maintenance basics are cybersecurity and network admin type degrees, and even that is changing as more and more networking is virtualized and in the cloud.
If I’m watching something for free like on YouTube then I don’t mind the ads because some of that revenue goes to the content creators.
except google made sure get alot of the ad revenue, thats why content creator have to get brand deals, and promotions for thier revenue, or patreon. they made it so bad for some creators, they forced them out of youtube forever.
also its a huge nuisance to have ads anyways.
How much ad revenue do creators receive? I’m sure it’s still enough for them to want people to watch ads on their videos. If I’m wrong let me know. Also yes I know ads are a nuisance. That’s not relevant. I know ads are a nuisance, I watch them anyway for the point I mentioned.
The payouts are ludicrously low. It’s only slightly better than Spotify at this point.
Also, the ads suck so much, it’s just not worth it. If you want to support creators, donate them a dollar/euro etc. (if you have the means, one dollar can be a lot when you’re struggling), that’s probably a hundred times as much as they would have earned even from a dedicated viewer through ads.
I don’t have the means to support them and I watch a lot of content creators so I wouldn’t be able to support them all anyway. Letting the ads play is the only way I can support them.
