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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 131 points 2 years ago (21 children)

What I want to know is how much money could insurance companies (cough, Liberty Mutual, cough) POSSIBLY be saving people when they are buying ads on every video on Youtube.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I always wondered what if someone started an insurance business that didn’t spend billions on advertisements, it just offered genuinely lower rates. When you sign up you have to sign something promising you’ll tell 2 other people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Market Basket of insurance companies - solid, quality products, at a reasonable price, because they simply don’t do any marketing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Massachusetts (funny enough also where MB is popular) used to have only small car insurance companies, I think it had something to do with no-fault or something. But they opened up to the Geicos and co. A decade or so ago.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    That’s what you’re seeing. Not what I’m seeing. Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted ads.

    I only get Doctor Drew telling me stuff is a metabolism killer.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I get douche bros peddling instant meal powder crap. Which I have never, ever, looked for or researched, but my wife's shopping habits tend to dictate my ads, even though we're on completely different devices.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    You guys watch ads on YouTube? When YT gets the better of UblockO for a couple days, I just open the YT homepage, see which of the regular channels I check out have new videos or I look through my recommended and then I open piped or yewtu.be. Fuck YT. I refuse to watch ads. When I open a YT link through lemmy, I’ll close the window immediately if an ad starts playing. Fuck these companies.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I mostly get ads for stuff I've researched online; anything I buy for the house, kitchen, or simply tools for business, I make sure is "Buy It For Life" quality

    Targeted ads are hilarious. Yes, Google, I did. I did just buy a pair of Knipex Cobra pipe grips. That will be the last time ever I buy them, and they will still be hanging around a secondhand shop 150 years after I've turned to fuckin dust. The advert for Shungong Best Grip is a fuckin waste of electrons

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Weird then that I don't need insurance and am not looking for insurance...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And I’m super skinny and don’t need to speed up my metabolism. It’s not perfect, but we both sit in a demographic cohort that seems to really buy what they’re pushing to us.

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