What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
I’ve actually developed a fucking Pavlovian response to the words “but first, let’s talk about…” or any variation in a video, because 9 times out of 10 the creator is about to shill out for a scam product despite my ad blockers.
You should check out the sponsorblock extension, it doesn’t catch everything but I’d say it skips a solid 95% of sponsor segments. Or Youtube Vanced if you watch on mobile.
This is the sole reason I do not ever use YouTube for anything, ever.
I’ll spend hours working something out rather than watch a video on YouTube and have to spend any time at all skipping through the bullshit to find the info I need.
YouTube is responsible for a good portion of the enshittification of the internet by way of attention whores making a 20 minute video for what could have been 3 sentences in a written article.
I’ve actually developed a fucking Pavlovian response to the words “but first, let’s talk about…” or any variation in a video, because 9 times out of 10 the creator is about to shill out for a scam product despite my ad blockers.
You should check out the sponsorblock extension, it doesn’t catch everything but I’d say it skips a solid 95% of sponsor segments. Or Youtube Vanced if you watch on mobile.
This is the sole reason I do not ever use YouTube for anything, ever.
I’ll spend hours working something out rather than watch a video on YouTube and have to spend any time at all skipping through the bullshit to find the info I need.
YouTube is responsible for a good portion of the enshittification of the internet by way of attention whores making a 20 minute video for what could have been 3 sentences in a written article.