This will be short and sweet. The media, videos, and Youtube... If I click on your site I will accept that one commercial is the cost, and I'm ok with that. But when you go right to commercial number two, I bail immedieatly and include a thumbs down. Your algorithms should notify you of such. I will not indulge any site with more than one commercial, no matter the content and how enticing it may be. Nothing is that interesting so I resolutely bail.
What say the rest of you, will you indulge them ? Enough algorithms ought to get the message through enough to cause a change.
I've heard some of the content creators say that it's not them who put up the commercials, but You Tube. I don't know about the other platforms, but I imagine they are the same. It's how they make $$. Of course, the content creator gets a percentage.
Most commercials have a way to skip out after 5 seconds, so if it's something I'm really interested in, I'll watch the 5 seconds and continue.
Total turn off for me.
I won't even watch "live" TV. I record everything so I can FF through the commercials.
I don't worry over YouTube commercials. I use Opera usually, and that browser blocks them automatically. It blocks almost all ads, except on Facebook. they drop ads into the middle of a feed like the ad was just another post, and I reckon opera can't tell the difference between a commercial post and a regular post the way they do it.
It does cause problems some times. For example, many times someone posts a link to a news story, and the story is behind an adwall that detects I am blocking ads, and demands I turn off my ad blocker to read it. Not gonna happen. there ain't no news anywhere that is fascinating enough to get me to drop my block.
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(04-03-2021, 04:52 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: [ -> ]Total turn off for me.
I won't even watch "live" TV. I record everything so I can FF through the commercials.
on most if not all broadcast and cable tv the commercials are better than the shows.
(04-04-2021, 04:37 AM)hounddoghowlie Wrote: [ -> ] (04-03-2021, 04:52 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: [ -> ]Total turn off for me.
I won't even watch "live" TV. I record everything so I can FF through the commercials.
on most if not all broadcast and cable tv the commercials are better than the shows.
There is merit to that statement. I have hundreds of channels available 24/7. Many times there is nothing I want to watch. I ask myself, 'who watches this stuff?'.
@"ABNARTY"
Being in Europe, I have a lot of international shows to choose one.
The last one I browsed was a game show in Russia with the contestants soldiers in uniform. One of them was showing off dog tricks with one of their war dogs. I couldn't understand what was being said, but the dog was the star anyway.
Cheers
(04-04-2021, 05:40 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: [ -> ]@"ABNARTY"
Being in Europe, I have a lot of international shows to choose one.
The last one I browsed was a game show in Russia with the contestants soldiers in uniform. One of them was showing off dog tricks with one of their war dogs. I couldn't understand what was being said, but the dog was the star anyway.
Cheers
I also dont speak dog but I do speak cat
(04-04-2021, 05:40 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: [ -> ]@"ABNARTY"
Being in Europe, I have a lot of international shows to choose one.
The last one I browsed was a game show in Russia with the contestants soldiers in uniform. One of them was showing off dog tricks with one of their war dogs. I couldn't understand what was being said, but the dog was the star anyway.
Cheers
A dog doing tricks is better than 90% of what's on
I am envious.