I’m sure everybody is annoyed by the YT shooter ads (perhaps unless you pay for ad-free).
The approach driving these ads is similar to phishing mails, the point is to get people to download the game (duh). However the shooter game is only a small part of the actual game, the shooter is simply the means to generate the most downloads.
The real aim isn’t to get the most downloads as such, it’s to catch whales. Increasing the number of downloads merely increases the chance of catching whales. Whales are people who develop addictive behavior and buy in-game stuff for (tens of) thousands of dollars. The game is specifically structured in a manner that increases the odds of that happening.
If you want to know more, this clip explains it better and with much more detail:
I’m not annoyed, because I use an app that not only blocks all the youtube ads, but even skips all the unnecessary and boring parts in the videos, based on the markings left by the earlier viewers.
I might not watch a film because it got bad reviews but I’d hate for someone else to decide which parts I should miss as they themselves found them unnecessary or boring.
I still pretty horrified that you watched Adolescence speeded up. (another thread)
It’s the pauses, and duration of pauses, and moments of quiet, which make a drama more powerful.
Which is still way slower than reading. A podcast where people talk without structure, repeat themselves and lose time could be condensed to 1-2 pages which can be read in 1 min.
Podcasts are entertainment, don’t spoil entertainment.
It depends what it is - a Youtube DIY video - fine, a drama -no.
I don’t understand the point of those “books in 15 minutes” either. If the book only needs fifteen minutes to read then it should have been written shorter to begin with.
Again, there are subjects where this would be fine - especially for someone who can grasp the principles easily - perhaps a book on Keynesian economics, or a history book but a novel?
Nope, I switched, on my main laptop and phone, to the Brave browser that still allows ad-blockers to work with youtube, a month or three ago, when they started blocking the blocker on Firefox.
The point at which I’m forced to watch adverts for any sort of video, TV, whatever, will be the point at which I stop using them.
Apropos the other subject: I hate being forced to watch a video for tutorials and the like. Just write it down please, then I don’t need to pause, rewind, fast forward etc., and usually can skim through to easily find the one or two paragraphs that I might actually need or want.
Podcasts simply baffle me. And Audiobooks. Yeah, I get it that some people may spend a long time driving and that these could be a way to keep up with stuff, but surely that’s not true for most people who use such things, is it? And I’ve long believed - without any first-hand experience, I would stress - that listening to an audio book is likely to miss a lot of the subtlety and nuance of simply reading it.
It’s about skipping the sponsor blocks, intros, credits, interaction reminders, recaps, promotions and so on. Not about parts of the movies (who watches movies on YouTube?).
I’m listening to podcasts and audio books all the time while cooking, cleaning, ironing, working in the garden etc. I never do any “unintelligent” work without my headphones.
Ok, that’s fair enough. You did use the word “boring” though as well as “unnecessary”.
You didn’t watch “Adolescence” on YT though, did you but you still watched it faster.
I don’t listen to audiobooks but Podcasts are great - if you are doing other things which don’t require full attention - like gardening, household chores etc.
There are some great history ones out there - I’m listening to one on Fidel Castro at the moment - in total it’s around nine hours in total. I probably wouldn’t have bought a book on Fidel Castro so it’s a plus from that point of view.
Another one is Cold War Conversations which I mentioned on another thread and which people who lived through the cold war are interviewed - some of it’s quite revealing, especially the day-to-day life living behind the iron curtain.
Frankly speaking, I’m mostly thinking about the technical aspects of movie making while watching. I often pause to search something in Wikipedia. I’m not the person who is “immersed” in the plot of the movie.
Or get your clips on yewtu.be, an ad-free YT front-end.
However this lacks the sophisticated algorithms that suggest clips based on your behavior, instead you need to search for stuff/creators manually. And the bitstream has occasional hickups.
I try and avoid them, they have a lot of garbage in them, the interviewers always try to make it about themselves and everyone insists on using ten words when two will do.
I do Like audiobooks when driving Long Autobahn stretches. I cant stand the hip and with it Radiostations that Play the Same 50 lukewarm Songs over and over again and have Since gravitated to Bayern1 for Songs that I recognize as Belonging to music. But Even their playlist is predictable.
At the Moment I am listening to „what if“ by Randall Munroe, may Even get the Second part
Thanks for sharing. I’d read comments about these ‘fake games’ and wondered why someone would pay for an advert only not to have the game they advertised offered.
