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YouTube confirms 3-strike policy for blocking ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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Whelp, here we go again

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I rarely use YouTube, but my nephew (he's two) was over the other day and we put on some cartoons for him that were in YouTube since my wife and I don't have Disney plus. I couldn't BELIEVE how many ads it showed. One five-minute merry melodies cartoon had FOUR SEPARATE ad breaks, the third and fourth of which were both 3+ minutes long if you weren't paying attention to skip.

Wtf?! Not even shit ass normal broadcast television has that many commercials.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Feels like every year corporations rely on the naivety of youth in an attempt to push more and more egregious shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Exactly right they're normalizing ads in everything. They're indoctrinating the youth, who don't know any better or differently, into just accepting/expecting that all content in all forms comes with ads, and you can't watch any of it without signing in so they can track you and sell your data.

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