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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 130 points 10 months 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.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months 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.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 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.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I went over a month with zero issues using UBO on YouTube. Coincidentally today for some reason the site started breaking so I updated the quick fixes filter list and that solved it.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have ad blocker at the router level, but I often toggle it off when it interrupts marketing experiences that I need to see for work.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

May I ask what you are using for a blocker?

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