• Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really know how people can even use YouTube without ad blockers. Sitting through minutes of advertisement is not going to make me want to buy your product if I start mentally associating your product with frustration and annoyance. If these video ads are going to be repetitive and annoying, at least make them funny.

    It seems like there is nowhere on the Internet to get away from ads currently, even here, where you thought you are safe, you are now reading an ad for my newest movie (you know the one), now also available on streaming!

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        1 year ago

        I’m not cheap, I’m frugal, there is a difference.

        Paying Google for them to stop shoving ads in my face doesn’t feel like a good purchase and I don’t want to support that kind of behavior, and I’m smart enough to use uBlock Origin and ReVanced (Little bit of a struggle though.)

        It’s more about principle than anything else.

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          1 year ago

          @[email protected] As a creative on strike I would have thought you would have felt some solidarity with the content creators who make 50% of the ad revenue you are withholding from them by blocking ads.

          I pay for premium because I can’t stand ads but I do want to support creators with a share of my subscription, even though I know it is less than they would have made if I watched the ads. I thought maybe you would feel the same given you aren’t hurting for money either.

          I know it is not a perfect system, but I do appreciate the content creators I watch enough to want them get payed. I subscribe to Nebula too for this reason, though I admit I should use it more.

          @[email protected]

          • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Have you watched the ending of that movie? Refusing to participate in a broken system is always an option.

            If you would like to support your favorite creators, buying their merchandise or donating to them would be far more effective.