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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads! (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 131 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Ive been getting back to reading myself. Media's become so overstimulating

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Same I just bought a used kindle and jail broken it so now I have a huge library to go through and I have downloaded a bunch of movies and tv shows to my media server as well

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    So true! Also, productive screentime has been nice. Instead of doomscrolling or mindlessly zoning out to video essays, I've been programming, doing some 3D modeling for 3D printing, working on some simple games, and reading long form articles from my own curated news feed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I had a book once that had a full color spread for the movie in the middle of the book. Obviously this was a skippable ad, but still, it’s inescapable.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I've been collecting old books for years. Currently slogging through Mellives collection of stories printed in 1968. Could find a copy of the book turned movie, printed before the movie?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn't as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.

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