Online Ads Are Getting Out of Control

Online ads are getting ridiculous these days. Companies are pushing more and more ads, and ads now are offensive, scammy, and even malicious. In this video, we'll see just how bad the modern advertising landscape is, and if there's any hope for the future...

0:00 Intro
1:08 But wait, it gets worse
4:06 We don't need privacy where we're going
6:01 The unsustainable future
9:15 The future of making money online

[SapeHallward]

People used to say "If the product is free, than you're the product." Now we're the product no matter how much we pay.

[IronWolf]

Youtube is the worst at ads. They disallow swear words because of children laws but encourage ads that have anime girls in 10% clothing.

[Dexter]

2000: Ads.
2005: More ads.
2010: Tons of ads and they're becoming very annoying.
2015: Unbereable amount ads that distrupt the experience.
2020: Ads of actively harmful products or malware in unbereable amounts. Pay to get rid of them from the service.
2024: Ads are the vast majority of content in any page you go and you get them despite paying for subscription.
"Why do people hate ads so much, they decide to use adblockers? Can't they see that it's hurting us?"

[KeeperOfTheGate]

I almost forgot about a world with ads. I block them off all devices and apps.

[crummy]

Ad blockers are a requirement for browsing the Internet safely. The endless amount of scams and malware ads make it unsafe without one.

[擻]

quality of the web as a whole is just going downhill

[justinpatterson]

Their so called "targeted" ads, have yet to convince me to click a single damn thing.

[Ovenico]

If a website tells me to turn off my adblocker i just stop doing whatever I was doing on it.

[Seydaschu]

Imagine, a world without ads!~🌟🌈A world where "tricking people into buying what they don't need" is no longer a legal job title!~

[justinbuddy]

Of all the ads I’ve experienced, I’d say the worst one for me has to be the autoplay ads on fandom. Sometimes I’ll be reading through information for a game, and suddenly the autoplay ad at the top will change, and my perspective will be shifted back to the top of the page. Then I need to scroll back down, find where I was, and hope that doesn’t happen again for the next 2 minutes.

[Hackzor]

The worst is that stupid pop-up telling you they care about your data while hoping you'll accept their 100+ partners harvesting your data, just a waste of my time having to uncheck everything all the damn time

[genxlife]

They're not serving us better ads. They're serving us worse ads.

[janzibansi]

A tree in a pot cannot grow indefinitely. At some point the tree starts competing with itself for nutrients, the roots choking themself, rotting, and the tree will die.

[keida]

I did a 10 minute presentation about the ethics adblock for my philosophy class last fall. I used a yt clip <1 minute and got served a 30s unskippable ad

[ffwast]

The breaking point for me was when the ads actually stopped me from consuming the content. I clicked on the content not an ad, show me the content not an ad.

This was back in 2006 and we only had dialup out here, I didn't have the data to waste on that intrusive nonsense anyways. I started blocking and never looked back. Now they just want to waste *more* of my time, it's backsliding to the way half of television airtime was just ads. I only have so much time, I'm not wasting it on that.

[zxxtlz]

"You probably got an ad before this video"
Me using firefox with ublock origin:

[Corrderio]

I miss when ads were just a JPEG or GIF banner at the top of a web page. Now they're far more invasive, bothersome, and getting more and more repetitive. Political ads every 2 years, Mint Mobile, Hero Wars, Envoy, some anime GACHA....

[ghasttastic]

even with all the tracking in the world youtube still cant figure out im male.

[СашаБицадзе-щг]

"Companies know you better than you do" Shit, didn't know I was a pregnant woman

[jonragnarsson]

Ad publishers broke the contract long time ago.