| ▲ | echelon 2 days ago | |
Are you seriously trying to argue the world is better off without YouTube? I derive incredible value from YouTube. It wasn't always great, but it is recently full of extremely good educational content, tech talks, independent journalism, how-tos, independent film and animation, and so much more. I'd wager that you use and benefit from a lot of services that are paid for via advertising. Even public transit is subsidized by advertising. | ||
| ▲ | ranguna 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Parasitic strategies != ads The regulation was about unskippable ads, not ads in general. I agree with the op and I don't agree that we are better off without YouTube. It's not hard at all to understand the op, so I'm not sure why you misread them and jumped to conclusions that all ads are parasitic and asked if we're better off without YouTube. Was that rage bate or did you really think the op was talking about all ads? | ||
| ▲ | hdgvhicv 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
In London public transport accounts for about 10% of the ticket price. For 20p I’m bombarded with flashing moving images as I travel around. It’s sickening and shouldn’t be allowed in public spaces. There was a fight back at Euston station recently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2987kvp3no I never get a taxi in New York thanks to the adverts. Sadly the general population thinks their time and attention is worthless and accept adverts. People actually watch commercial tv, which steals 20 minutes of your time every hour to brainwash you. | ||
| ▲ | anigbrowl a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You know perfectly well that's not what I wrote. Putting words in others' mouths is a form of lying, and not conducive to discussion. | ||