Try, just TRY please, to get into the mindset of your user. He browses your videos or, better, he looks at his front page and sees a new video from his favorite YouTuber. Hey, great, the day just got better, a new video from HIM/HER and I get to watch it.
He clicks.
And is greeted by an ad.
Let's ponder for a moment what we have here now. We have someone whose mind is expecting and looking forward to seeing a video that he really, really wants to see. This ad could now be the most on-topic ad you could possibly imagine, it could be for the cure of his incurable brain tumor and he would cuss and curse for as long as he has to watch it before he can skip it. It could be the trailer for his favorite movie franchise that he has been watching religiously since birth. It does not matter.
It is NOT what he wants NOW.
And yes, that's worse than it was on cable. On cable, you knew that at 6:30pm your show starts. You knew that days in advance. Because that's how it always is. Watching an ad before does not change that. Your expectation is not disappointed because there was no immediate "want it now" motivation for you. Seeing a new video being offered IS such a moment. It's surprising (more or less), it's new and exciting and you want it NOW.
Before anyone goes "waaah, entitled crybaby can't wait..." YES. That is how people are. People are looking forward to something and anything standing between them and that something will be pushed out of the way. Especially if it's nothing they give half a fuck about like an ad.
You develop a better mouse trap, we develop a better mouse... it's not like this would be the first time.
I'd really love me a new challenge, recently it seems they stopped trying. Splicing ads into the stream sure would be something new to tackle, looking forward to it!
I liked TF2 for a while for its humor and the graphical style but when it became more a game about fashion and wearing the coolest hat to the tutu and your straightjacket, I kinda lost interest.
Seems this is the same, only that they started with the fashion show before the game had a chance to be good first.
Right! That has been the staple of commie countries for pretty much the past century (read: as long as commie countries existed). Let's praise the good worker and badmouth the bad kulak and the atrocious bourgeois. Let's have worker of the week/month awards with extra rations and preferred allocation of rare goods and luxury items like cars.
Why didn't it work, again?
Riiight, because nobody gave a fuck since those in power who were part of the supply chain could always simply take what they wanted even if they were the biggest assholes and you could get faster ahead by kissing the right butt instead of working your own off.
In other words, the system works in theory. But you shouldn't let it get into contact with human beings and their character.
You have the freedom of speech. This is correct. But nobody is required to listen. You have the right to assemble peacefully, this is correct. But mostly because those in power noticed that it doesn't matter. You can petition what you want. Please leave your petition in the waste basket provided, we'll ignore it later.
They sell that data to the ones that send you to the gulag. Who are, funny enough, funded by you. For both things, buying your data AND sending you to the gulag.
And see what it has done for the US. In some towns there are areas where even the police doesn't dare to go anymore, this is the very definition of a parallel society with its own rules, its own policies and its own social system.
In this time and age? All that's required is that someone feels you're a $conspiracy_theory_bad_group_member for him to make it his mission to fuck up your life.
The main difference being that you don't have to record the movie so you can skip the ad breaks watching it but you can simply block the ads while watching.
Other than that, yes, YouTube becomes more and more like cable TV.
Well, occasionally, when I feel the need for a goof, I turn adblocking off when watching videos debunking some snakeoil, and usually it seems fairly reliable that I get ads for exactly the snakeoil the video debunks.
Ok. I just watched some kind of video that the webpage this game is about sent me to. It looked like some weird anime/furry/brony crossover. The only thing missing was some lube and weirdly shaped dildos.
And 8.something million people play this?
Did the freaks take over the circus while I wasn't looking?
I mostly stopped caring at some point. There's just too much stupidity on both ends of the spectrum today, I just sit back, relax and watch the world burn.
The far left abandoned the workers because the workers have abandoned it. They found a new darling in refugees and other underprivileged people... whether they are underprivileged or not.
The workers moved on and became increasingly nationalist and protectionist, essentially what the middle classes did when they started to get a share of the cake after the bourgeoisie revolutions of the 1700s (USA) and 1800s (Europe). Same now. As soon as they had something to lose, the interest in revolution waned.
And the reason why I keep pestering you for a definition of "the elites" is simple: I have heard too many already. I can't simply take one and run with it. I've heard literally everything. Including that now feminist YouTubers are "the elite" because they get to influence what gets taught at universities.
If you use a badly defined word like "the elites" or "terrorism", please define it. So I know what you want to use it for.
Although... I am still waiting for someone using "the elites" to make compelling arguments for, well, pretty much anything.
Palm oil and cocoa is what they really export to us. Any palm oil not coming from the far east is probably from Nigeria. And palm oil is in pretty much EVERYTHING today. It's the cheap replacement for pretty much any other fats we used to have in our processed foods.
Because nobody gives a fuck why someone in Africa croaks.
People die on this continent by the thousands, daily, from avoidable diseases, from wars that nobody know about because they ain't even worth a ticker message on CNN, from mining the metals we need for our next cellphone that we use for a year, if that, and a million other things.
And nobody, literally nobody, gives a fuck.
You are still wondering why these people try to escape that hellhole? I don't.
That's why a loss of my computer would devastate me, it would be near impossible to reach me.
A phone call is by some margin the worst kind of communication you could have with someone. It gives you no time to ponder a suitable answer, it does not document the communication unless you deliberately do it yourself, it only allows for one simultaneous communication and it does not let you prioritize your communications.
If you need something from me, drop me a line in the instant messenger we use in house and you will receive an answer according to the importance of the communication and the availability of the information you require.
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Try, just TRY please, to get into the mindset of your user. He browses your videos or, better, he looks at his front page and sees a new video from his favorite YouTuber. Hey, great, the day just got better, a new video from HIM/HER and I get to watch it.
He clicks.
And is greeted by an ad.
Let's ponder for a moment what we have here now. We have someone whose mind is expecting and looking forward to seeing a video that he really, really wants to see. This ad could now be the most on-topic ad you could possibly imagine, it could be for the cure of his incurable brain tumor and he would cuss and curse for as long as he has to watch it before he can skip it. It could be the trailer for his favorite movie franchise that he has been watching religiously since birth. It does not matter.
It is NOT what he wants NOW.
And yes, that's worse than it was on cable. On cable, you knew that at 6:30pm your show starts. You knew that days in advance. Because that's how it always is. Watching an ad before does not change that. Your expectation is not disappointed because there was no immediate "want it now" motivation for you. Seeing a new video being offered IS such a moment. It's surprising (more or less), it's new and exciting and you want it NOW.
Before anyone goes "waaah, entitled crybaby can't wait..." YES. That is how people are. People are looking forward to something and anything standing between them and that something will be pushed out of the way. Especially if it's nothing they give half a fuck about like an ad.
You develop a better mouse trap, we develop a better mouse... it's not like this would be the first time.
I'd really love me a new challenge, recently it seems they stopped trying. Splicing ads into the stream sure would be something new to tackle, looking forward to it!
"I know! We'll just compress the ads into the first half second! We could call them... blip-verts ."
And they will BLOW YOUR MIND!
VPN to a country with fewer ads in its football streams. Germany works for me.
See, that's the reason right there. If you watched on a sensible OS/Browser combo, ad blocking would work.
But I guess you're already used to paying for stuff others get for free, so that's fine.
Points and merits are cheaper than hard cash. Duh.
Because it could be measured.
I liked TF2 for a while for its humor and the graphical style but when it became more a game about fashion and wearing the coolest hat to the tutu and your straightjacket, I kinda lost interest.
Seems this is the same, only that they started with the fashion show before the game had a chance to be good first.
Right! That has been the staple of commie countries for pretty much the past century (read: as long as commie countries existed). Let's praise the good worker and badmouth the bad kulak and the atrocious bourgeois. Let's have worker of the week/month awards with extra rations and preferred allocation of rare goods and luxury items like cars.
Why didn't it work, again?
Riiight, because nobody gave a fuck since those in power who were part of the supply chain could always simply take what they wanted even if they were the biggest assholes and you could get faster ahead by kissing the right butt instead of working your own off.
In other words, the system works in theory. But you shouldn't let it get into contact with human beings and their character.
And they don't matter.
You have the freedom of speech. This is correct. But nobody is required to listen. You have the right to assemble peacefully, this is correct. But mostly because those in power noticed that it doesn't matter. You can petition what you want. Please leave your petition in the waste basket provided, we'll ignore it later.
Anything else you wanted to do or say?
Of course not. That costs money.
They sell that data to the ones that send you to the gulag. Who are, funny enough, funded by you. For both things, buying your data AND sending you to the gulag.
And see what it has done for the US. In some towns there are areas where even the police doesn't dare to go anymore, this is the very definition of a parallel society with its own rules, its own policies and its own social system.
In this time and age? All that's required is that someone feels you're a $conspiracy_theory_bad_group_member for him to make it his mission to fuck up your life.
That must have been the guy who wrote the speeches for Hitler.
And you're certainly able to explain what this has jack all to do with a surveillance system that even Orwell couldn't make up?
The main difference being that you don't have to record the movie so you can skip the ad breaks watching it but you can simply block the ads while watching.
Other than that, yes, YouTube becomes more and more like cable TV.
Well, occasionally, when I feel the need for a goof, I turn adblocking off when watching videos debunking some snakeoil, and usually it seems fairly reliable that I get ads for exactly the snakeoil the video debunks.
The system works!
If I wanted to watch ads longer than the clips between them, I could have kept my TV.
Ok. I just watched some kind of video that the webpage this game is about sent me to. It looked like some weird anime/furry/brony crossover. The only thing missing was some lube and weirdly shaped dildos.
And 8.something million people play this?
Did the freaks take over the circus while I wasn't looking?
Please! Nobody wants to see any moobs, if we wanted that, we'd have mirrors in our basements!
I mostly stopped caring at some point. There's just too much stupidity on both ends of the spectrum today, I just sit back, relax and watch the world burn.
The far left abandoned the workers because the workers have abandoned it. They found a new darling in refugees and other underprivileged people... whether they are underprivileged or not.
The workers moved on and became increasingly nationalist and protectionist, essentially what the middle classes did when they started to get a share of the cake after the bourgeoisie revolutions of the 1700s (USA) and 1800s (Europe). Same now. As soon as they had something to lose, the interest in revolution waned.
And the reason why I keep pestering you for a definition of "the elites" is simple: I have heard too many already. I can't simply take one and run with it. I've heard literally everything. Including that now feminist YouTubers are "the elite" because they get to influence what gets taught at universities.
If you use a badly defined word like "the elites" or "terrorism", please define it. So I know what you want to use it for.
Although... I am still waiting for someone using "the elites" to make compelling arguments for, well, pretty much anything.
Weed? From Africa?
Please.
Palm oil and cocoa is what they really export to us. Any palm oil not coming from the far east is probably from Nigeria. And palm oil is in pretty much EVERYTHING today. It's the cheap replacement for pretty much any other fats we used to have in our processed foods.
Enjoy your dinner.
Because nobody gives a fuck why someone in Africa croaks.
People die on this continent by the thousands, daily, from avoidable diseases, from wars that nobody know about because they ain't even worth a ticker message on CNN, from mining the metals we need for our next cellphone that we use for a year, if that, and a million other things.
And nobody, literally nobody, gives a fuck.
You are still wondering why these people try to escape that hellhole? I don't.
I do.
That's why a loss of my computer would devastate me, it would be near impossible to reach me.
A phone call is by some margin the worst kind of communication you could have with someone. It gives you no time to ponder a suitable answer, it does not document the communication unless you deliberately do it yourself, it only allows for one simultaneous communication and it does not let you prioritize your communications.
If you need something from me, drop me a line in the instant messenger we use in house and you will receive an answer according to the importance of the communication and the availability of the information you require.