• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Advertising will always get out of control. It is the nature of the beast. 1 ad that is skippable after 5 seconds before a video was fine, now it’s multiple unskippable ads before and throughout the video.
    “Subscribe for no ads” until the unsaitable desire for ad revenue becomes “Subscribe for fewer ads”.
    I was online in the early days of the Internet and didn’t use an ad block for quite some time. I was fine with sites getting ad revenue from banner ads I would ignore. Then one day I encountered a banner ads the literally screamed at me through my speakers when I moused over it and I couldn’t download an ad blocker fast enough.

    Advertising never stops at a reasonable level, is will always push further until it finds the level people won’t tolerate then pulls back jusssst a little. The only reasonable response is to not tolerate them at all.