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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Advertisements are detrimental to mental health.

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.