Adverts are killing the internet...

[@aaronmtvs5400]

Ads used to work around the sides of the page, now the page works around the sides of the ads.

[@Kenshinshop22]

Annoying right 👍

[@thefuppits]

Ads are inside the news now too. The advertising and marketing departments have taken over Editorial.

[@weldonyoung1013]

Webpages do not "work around adverts" on mobile. The adverts are popups over the webpages.

[@AmirRazan]

​@@weldonyoung1013they can come in both and any other way, really

[@sse2cpu]

This isn't a rant, it's 100% true.

[@futtt_buckerson]

Ad makers have such high standards causing KZbin’s adpocolypse… yet they’ll let malware and scam sites advertise and take zero responsibility

[@TsukinoAzura]

Malvertising is one of the reasons why I use ablock, I don't want to load up a Javascript advert with a malicious payload that then background downloads malicious software.

[@usernotfound-h2v]

That is why you need an adblocker,they waste your computer resources for nothing

[@samanthagriffinv2.08]

Not to mention there’s lot of adverts that can and will give you some kind of malware and or steal your personal information like credit card numbers you log in cookies etc

[@creato938]

Adblockers are a symptom of the disease, sadly the internet is getting unusable without an adblocker, you just waste more resources and get bigger exposure to malwares and virus, so i would say an adblocker can also serve as a security tool.

[@superNova5837]

Came across several where in place of the ad it just said “ad was removed by Google becuase it was too resource heavy” or something like that Also 18+ website ad banking on the user thinking it’s a system pop up from their device Wtf

[@SomeRandomPersonOnTheNet]

I miss the old internet…

[@thefuppits]

We miss there not being an internet.

[@weldonyoung1013]

Was that the one where accessibility wasn't an issue?

[@davidp4456]

I find it appalling that most of it has been lost. I remember during the 1990’s / early 2k’s a lot of ww2 veterans would record their memories on well known sites. Most of this valuable info has simply been deleted and thrown away 😢. We should have laws to enforce archiving.

[@yoshi314]

it's still out there, just hard to find.

[@aaronsmith9209]

I once broke my ipad screen in a fit of frustration because of this exact thing. Many websites load so much useless crap in the background, it makes websites very unstable and laggy. We have gone backwards in so many ways with the internet. What makes it worse is many web browsers have reader modes now and the websites go out of their way to break them, it's ridiculous. With how much faster the internet is now and how processors are far more powerful in everything, there should be no excuse for this.

[@asinglefrenchfry]

Brave browser on iOS blocks ads very well!

[@rnicoles9355]

not to mention mobile devices reading something on the internet and being bombarded with ads is pure torture

[@BestGirlsBiggestFan]

Vivaldi browser is your friend here. The desktop version and mobile equivalent both sport the same adblocker options.

[@AshnSilvercorp]

Why I loved realizing what Firefox can do on Android. The moment I did it, I could actually load store websites a bunch better and learn which ones were beyond hope. Lowes loaded horribly and didn't have stocking information. Home Depot loaded alright and actually had stocking information. I actually got what I needed done, and guess what! A company got money from me the normal way instead of me getting frustrated and going home.

[@weldonyoung1013]

AGREED !!! Does make me wonder how they get around the "ability" issue?

[@AshnSilvercorp]

YT deleted my comment about Firefox on Android...

[@kaidanalenko5222]

@AshnSilvercorp I read your comment. It's not deleted but hidden. I thought you said something against google but it turns out your comment looks like spam made by bots that's why it's hidden.

[@ElderSnake90]

Yeah the internet has become both less fun and less informative. Yes a wealth of info is out there, its just often so awful to access

[@incognit01233]

Allegedly. How much of it is handcrafted disinfo and how much of it is on the fly trash made by bots? Hell most people don't even know that most of their internet interractions are with bots and the things they read are curated by algorythms and bots and think tanks to mentally manipulate them to think and act a certain way.

[@aeregreenway8096]

All those ads, is the reason people have to buy more powerful machines. The ads are like an overly virulent virus, that are in the process of killing the host.

[@davidp4456]

So much for the Green commitments of Government and corporations. They are just full of shit and will have us scrap perfectly good devices as they are just after our money.

[@O5-XIV]

Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented pop-up ads. He apologized.... but the damage is done. KZbin is just as bad, if not worse. it's gotten so over bloated with ad's and such, it's a laggy buggy mess. Why 90% of the time i use a 3rd Party Program to watch KZbin. Stops the Popups, skips the ad's and such

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I have to reset the youtube process or restart the entire browser at least once a day because otherwise the site gets so slow it literally takes more than 5 seconds to react to a mouse click and uses more than 8GB memory. I have a computer with one of the fastest consumer CPUs and youtube manages to make it feel slower than a 15 year old computer.

[@superNova5837]

I had to manually revoke notification permissions from chrome becuase if I didn’t use my laptop and got a bunch of KZbin notifications instead of dismissing them it just spams all of them Why I gave chrome notification permissions is a different story but I don’t allow that anymore

[@samanthagriffinv2.08]

I understand why adverts exist but there’s a balance between making money to run the website and the user experience

[@snikrepak]

nah fam they make thier money on tv, no need to invade the net with thier scamverts

[@davidp4456]

We are already covering their costs, these ads are motivated by pure profit and greed.

[@longdang2681]

The problem is that marketing don't know when to stop. Done properly, the adverts model can and does work.

[@ChincerDante]

i still dont know why companies insist so heavily on that sort of invasive advertisement, if the reason i know your product is because of an annoying pop up, im less likely to want your product

[@lvsluggo007]

You're too soft on them, my take is: if the reason I know your product is because of an annoying ad, YOU GO ON A LIST OF COMPANIES I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH... PERIOD...

[@Carnyzzle]

My favorite is when I go to download something, and then there's like 20 other download buttons on the page, it's like Russian roulette but with the chance of infecting your device

[@masterkamen371]

I've discontinued using such sites ages ago. On Linux you can pretty much always find a FOSS solution through package managers, thus you never even have to deal with downloads. Like the Apple app store but no one is stealing your data and there is no profit motive behind it all. On Windows, well I try to find FOSS solutions where possible and otherwise stick to well known software. There are things like Ninite that also completely skip the shady internet. And as for piracy, well... Adblock and trusted sites are your friends.

[@eherrmann01]

I use Brave + a local DNS server running on a Rasberry Pi, I see zero ads. I get it that most people aren't going to go through the hassle of setting something like that, but being the nerd I am, I enjoyed the process.

[@montystar]

Pay with your data via adds or with your time learning and setting up gadgets, blugins and softwares.

[@wiosna4]

@@montystar There isn't much to setup, just install ublock origins and block cookie pop ups with right click

[@Tom-sg4iv]

Adguard system wide, and Albanian VPN for KZbin traffic. I hardly see any ads.

[@dna1737]

I’ve used Brave so long, I forgot how bad some websites are about adverts.

[@inendlesspain4724]

"written by real people" sounds like something straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia, yet it's our reality.

[@joshwa1234]

@@inendlesspain4724 unfortunately so

[@itsmaxifunyt]

Why do they even put them there. They have to know that we aren’t going to click on them or at least read them.

[@JessicaFEREM]

I went into my router and set adguard as my DNS so it's a sorta invisible adblocker, most devices don't question it and the ads get blocked. ofc it's not the most effective but every once in a while I'll be on a device without adblocker and see a blank square where an ad would be. ofc you can also do it manually per-device, especially if you use the device on other networks like a phone or laptop.

[@SGOrava]

This is why I like personal blogs on topics I like. It is harder to find them these days since a lot of people moved to (anti)social networks. So find those few blogs you like and follow those instead, modern world is not worth the effort to go through 99.999% of trash.

[@alecaishere]

And that's why I use adblocks

[@CamelCasee]

Old computers choke on this kind of web experience

[@davidp4456]

That’s the idea, and Windows 11 makes sure of it by preventing installation on anything but new hardware. It’s criminal.

[@supervidak64]

Stanley parable narrator speaks facts for 9 minutes and 41 seconds

[@ThatPinkPanther]

Nevermind the internet, your operating system ie windows 11 also has adverts now. Will soon belike the internet.

[@asinglefrenchfry]

I can tell you an open secret that not enough people are sharing: “Enterprise LTSC” versions of Windows 10 and 11 are stripped of all the bloatware, nagware, and adware that come with consumer versions of Windows. They’re the spiritual successors to Windows 7. LTSC + StartAllBack + Brave Browser (or any browser with an ad-block extension) is the essential package for the best PC and internet experience now.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

My operating system is Gentoo Linux - it has no adverts. In order to rid yourself of your Microsoft abuser, it requires putting some effort into learning to use alternative options. Just sitting here and complaining achieves nothing.

[@ThatPinkPanther]

@ linux has no office, adobe or most online gaming. Will never be an option. If you have a smartphone, you’re already being tracked. Pointless exercise.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@ If it's not an option for you then so be it. But all my mobile devices run Lineage OS which have no tracking on them, it takes about 1 hour of one's time to install it and disable tracking completely. We hear the tired old tropes "Linux doesn't support Adobe" or "Linux doesn't support MS Office" but the people who actually need MS Office and Adobe products probably use them in a professional manner anyway, and they are still a small minority of the PC user base. As for gaming, you clearly have never heard of Steam, Valve, Proton or the Steam Deck - albeit I haven't bought or played a AAA game since 2010 (with the exception of Fallout 4) because modern "games as a service" are all turgid rubbish anyway.

[@ThatPinkPanther]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 if you have a youtube account, you’re stuck in the matrix my friend. Keep making life difficult for no reason.

[@louf7178]

And scammers ruining e-mail.

[@RockyBell]

Most frustrating part is when you reading an article and all of a sudden an ad loads above the menu and whoke page content shifts down.

[@PopsSinging]

I absolutely hate ads, I have never once purchased anything from an ad on a website. As an aside, since you showed their page, Wikipedia will never get a dime from me. They spent 31 million dollars last year on 'Race equity', more than any other section of their budget, more than for hosting or salaries even.

[@LumpyMoose]

I blame google, its incessant micro targeting of ads has literally broken the internet. I refuse to put any of that junk on my website and don’t get me started about a cookie being required to save a cookie preference about bloody cookies.

[@jonathangmallender]

I bet the only traffic most of these adverts have are people who click on them by accident. They are a complete scam.

[@afkamichael]

The pay to reject cookies type seen at 3:50 are the worst in principle... paying doesn't even turn off adverts, you just pay to prevent them profiling you.

[@davidp4456]

That’s interesting. It would be useful to see the full experience of someone who has paid to reject cookies, for example on The Sun’s web site. I just begrudge seeing this this request and close down the web page whenever I see it.

[@infin-lw5mc]

Is funny because to pay, you fill out billing information and use your bank card/PayPal. The website needs to store your purchase info as they're a business selling something. If there's a wall that even a cookie notice blocker or a paywall filter can't remove, I'd rather just not visit the site at all.

[@cheeseparis1]

The examples you chose are interesting : press articles. Good articles exist in paid newspapers, there are ads in newpapers, there needs to be ads on the website. BUT ads on the website feeds anyone but the newpaper editor, and that's why I block them. Same for your KZbin channel, I like and comment (and perhaps will subscribe later) to help because you won't get ad money from me. Even the "thanks" button gives away like 40% to someone else. And a "reward the author and ONLY the author" button will never happen on this planet unfortunately.

[@CCJ1998]

I was horrified by how many ads and garbage cover sites and even search engines now. Normally I would have the adblock going but always have that time when I do a fresh install and need to look up something really quick. What gets me is how many ads are for things that don't have anything to do with what you are searching for like tech for instance. Like I'm going to buy cookware looking for pc parts.

[@LumpyMoose]

One of the best answers for this advert crapware out there is reader mode… use it!

[@superNova5837]

iOS also has a remove distracting elements mode except certain websites refresh anyways Mostly becuase some website don’t have reader mode which I can’t for the life of me understand why

[@Itsgone99]

They are.

[@henson2k]

Watch the ad before you see the content, isn't what KZbin does? Commercialization of Internet reached critical point. I can see how AI chats can be better for now but granted they will include ads as well pretty soon. OpenAI is already complaining that $200/month subscription is not profitable. We went through the same process with streaming services when everything was free with ads or paid subscription but now paid plus ads.

[@davidp4456]

It amounts to a scam. Government has been bought and won’t act in our interests.

[@peterjol]

They don't seem to get it but the advertisers are cutting their own noses to spite their face (as the saying goes) by absolutely overdoing advertising...I barely watch ANY TV any more because I just can't take 5 mins of adverts after only seeing ten mins of a show or movie or whatever else it is I actually want to watch....at the moment ad blockers are still managing to keep the internet 'almost' ok...but if it wasn't for that ..I can't see me bothering with the internet any more.

[@mkissin493]

Greed meets opportunity. Plain and simple.

[@SystemParanoia]

Pihole and uBlock Origin here.

[@TheSimoc]

Ads per se are a nuisance, but I gladly tolerate them for free services. What I do not tolerate, is the hor-rib-le resource-hogging code bloat and requirements of browser support for new frivolous web technologies every year. These plague both ads and actual site content - as well as *all* other mainstream software.

[@JessicaFEREM]

any website that doesn't have a "reject all" button is against GDPR guidelines btw. rejecting has to be just as easy as accepting.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Incorrect, it has nothing to do with GDPR - and GDPR only applies to European citizens anyway.

[@OmegaWolf747]

So annoying. I've been using Firefox since 2003 or so and started using adblockers not long after.

[@Reprint001]

For those of us who are old enough to remember life before the internet: we used to get the information we get off the internet now, from magazines, newspapers and books. And mostly, we used to have to pay for these. They still had adverts in them, but they were often easily ignored. Now, on the internet, anyone and everyone can publish anything. There's a cost to publishing, but it seems internet users feel they have some sort of right to consume published content for free. This isn't how it used to be. So it's hardly surprising that ads have taken over and it's hardly surprising that companies are struggling when people want to use ad blockers so that they get free content, with no annoyances. But those users are also part of the problem! You get what you pay for and if people continue to use ad blockers, more and more sites will have to go behind pay walls or simply die and there be only a few sources left. Full circle, welcome to the 70s, 80s and 90s.

[@sparkyKestrel]

Your term "easily ignored" is the key here. When ads started appearing in websites in the early days of www, they were small and often easily ignored, just like in magazines, newspapers etc. The problem is that those websites started prioritising the ads more and more as well as adding pop-ups, so you couldn't ignore them. This is what has led to more and more people installing ad blockers and ad blocking browsers, leading to a vicious circle as websites then start adding means to get around the ad blockers and so on. The people who run websites need to learn - the websites are there to publish the information and ads should work around that and not get in the way like they do today. I'm sure many people would not have to use adblockers if the ads fit around the website, rather than the way it is today where the website fits around the ds.

[@claudiameier666]

well we used to pay a basic fee like on u tube or netflix to get ad free. then they started jacking up the prices. along with wanting us to pay subscriptions instead of selling it outright, eg a game on play store. its bs

[@deathound]

Do you forget that you DO have to pay to gain access? The Internet isn't free, you have to pay to gain access through an ISP. The Internet isn't free, it's actually more expensive than your newspapers ever were, so yeah, I want my news without having to pay another 3 fees atop the existing payments I make.

[@mwbgaming28]

Ads are not the enemy The lack of regulation is the enemy, all advertising should be regulated to ensure it doesn't fill your computer with malware, the ads should not distract from the content, and there should be no timers before skipping/viewing content (can skip immediately)

[@weldonyoung1013]

Can you pass that on to the regulators. Those of us with "accessibility issues" would much prefer a usable internet.

[@davidp4456]

No chance. Government has been bought and the regulators are owned by the industry.

[@superNova5837]

@@weldonyoung1013yes Especially the sites where you need to zoom in but the video that wouldn’t be a problem on a larger tablet or laptop screen is now taking up more of the screen than necessary on top of the site switching to its mobile variant and it doesn’t include support for reader mode

[@JizyaDhimmi]

This is why I love the "read mode" on Firefox. Not to mention certain extensions I guess would get me shadowbanned from naming them on youtube. But it, removes, you know, the content you want to remove from your view. It's very nice to be able to clean up stuff. What's not working with that is not worth visiting. And that includes site in which you can't choose "Use only necessary cookies".

[@weldonyoung1013]

Some of those useful extensions have been removed or in ways made nonfunctional.

[@yoshi314]

if the websites goes out of its way to annoy me, I let it go out of my way.

[@paulyeomans1065]

FireFox, Ublock Origin, Pihole, I Don't Care About Cookies, Cookie Autodelete, SponsorBlock, Simple Login. BTW, Ublock Origin reports 1,663+ blocked on this page.

[@SystemParanoia]

On the phone I use Firefox with ublock

[@jodyjohnson265]

Online ads should be banned

[@davidp4456]

Our Governments fail to regulate corporate behaviour because they are bought and put corporate interests before the interests of the electorate.

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Now try it on mobile with the font size increased because you have a vision impairment! Some website can’t even be accessed because the stupid ‘accept cookies’ pop up and the buttons being outside the viewable area or that advervideo suddenly taking up way more space than it should and the X being way to small or also outside the viewable area 😅 also reader view not working or the page refreshing half way through so you lose your place which happens of iOS and Android 🤬

[@timmywashere1164]

5:50 It existed, It was called Yahoo! Directory. What you're describing is how search engines worked before Google which was they weren't search engines and were curated lists. Also, is that a mighty mouse?

[@joshwa1234]

Yeah it's an Apple Mighty Mouse - I've got 2, but the wheel only works properly on one, and I accidentally keep clicking the back button with them

[@cursix64]

I feel there is a middle ground. Like it or not, Ad revenue pays for all these sites. Its also an exchange; you want videos from KZbin, KZbin wants to show you some ads to pay for the servers, and yes, make some money. That being said, it has gotten really insane. Video pop ups on text based sites and sometimes even with full blown audio. Ads that try to trick you into think its part of the site or part of your antivirus. Popups that distract from the flow of the site. And the risk of malware as ad companies don't want to take responsibility if the ads they serve compromise systems.

[@joshwa1234]

I agree - adverts are needed to support sites etc - and a balance would be good

[@Entertainment-is6ex]

There was a middle ground; pay for KZbin Premium and get NO ads. But now KZbin still sometimes shows ads even if you pay (just nowhere near as much as the free version.... yet). This tells me they don't care about a middle ground, and want to fleece you as much as they can eventually. Same for Netflix.

[@superNova5837]

The real crappy ones when it comes to looking important are the ones that try to mimic the user interface of your operating system( especially if they’re mimicking critical error popups)

[@superNova5837]

The really infuriating ones are the ones that are either in the background so you don’t realize unless there’s a gap in the content or the ones on mobile that eat up half the screen Extra mentions to Ads in the middle of content (extra shit points if it’s a video that turns into a miniplayer in the corner Ads baked into the OS (looking at you windows) The ones that got so out of hand your device unloaded them The fake download buttons that definitely won’t get you anything useful The ones that are so unrelated you start questioning why they’re showing up Not necessarily a specific type of ad but twitter changing how they look so they look like they say 4d (4 days ago) The ones at the top of KZbin I have clicked a single one with any intention of looking at the product The ones that are so common you immediately don’t have any intent on purchasing the service or product at any point Sponsored segments (at least in the middle of a video) I don’t mind them just make it clear The full screen ones (especially ones that look like a system alert) Those random smartphone apps that claim to do thing that just aren’t possible (projector from a phone flash/ heart rate measurement using the phone flash)

[@icantchosemyname]

LLMs may be the solution, like stop browsing the web and just ask your favorite (local) LLM. I bet google is already searching how to introduce ads in Gemini 😂.

[@FarmYardGaming]

1000%, it's basically become the Internet

[@montystar]

Advernet 🧐

[@FarmYardGaming]

@montystar Quite! Unfortunate but it's the current course of the web

[@davidp4456]

Many thanks for your video. I’ve left comments all over the place as I couldn’t sleep. I have subbed as well as your old PC stuff is up my street. Thanks again. D 😊

[@joshwa1234]

Welcome to the channel I hope you found it both relaxing and interesting :)

[@Michael-vp9gs]

My grandfather was telling me that back in the day when you bought a horse, you had to get advertisements all over the horse... just so you could ride the house. You buy a faster and stronger horse just for them to load more advertisements onto it.

[@joshuasteinhoff297]

and i thought i was the only one who saw a bunch of nsfw ads thank god i got my adblocker prepared for engaging the safe for work websites without pesky porn ads in my way

[@davidp4456]

News was much more accessible when you just bought a news paper. The purchase paid for the content and they didn’t know who you were. The additional ads were also useful and if I fancied a new pair of Farah’s or a TV from Rediffusion I knew exactly where to go. All my local information was there in the town newspaper as well, including people who had died. These days people die and you never find out. I recently tried to look up info on close friends who had died and there was literally nothing to be found on the internet even though they had large funerals that were achieved by word of mouth. Without that I would never have found out. Imagine having a broadsheet or tabloid news paper with content that moved around and disappeared when you tried to read it, having permission for cookies flash at you when you turned the page, having adverts shoved in your face that you have to physically remove when you’re trying to look at Samantha Fox on page 3. The adverts are always traditionally placed near the back before the sports section where they are well placed and helpful. Why do people accept this useless crap from the internet?

[@patg108]

have a external gpu? There are sleeves for them, it'd show how far that old laptop can go with it. And combined with other methods. But those methods aren't limited to just that laptop, they can be used on other machines be it older or newer. (newer would just show better results)

[@零云-u7e]

Ya, Quic protocol wasn't some invention to provide a new https secure protocol. They were like, how much telemetry and ad channel can we pack into the browser? It was a double-edged sword. When you block Quic, it fails over to tcp, you'll see what I mean. The IETF went for it, of course, but it's my hangup. Really functional, but totally abused.

[@retro_coolcatalog]

i have 2gb ram and linux and i need ublock. if i do not use ublock my pc gets slow.

[@ARL0K]

"modern internet experience" ... its been like that since the 90's ... i havent seen an ad since 2000

[@davidrmcmahon]

I’m getting (more) ignorant now, News is getting too difficult to read. Most want subs now

[@sihop9220]

Information is valuable yet the news is free, what does that tell you? And now they want money for the BS they used to give away.

[@davidp4456]

News was much more accessible when you just bought a news paper. The purchase paid for the content and they didn’t know who you were. The additional ads were also useful and if I fancied a new pipe and slippers or a TV from Rediffusion I knew exactly where to go. All my local information was there in the town newspaper as well, including people who had died. These days people die and you never find out. I recently tried to look up info on close friends who had died and there was literally nothing to be found on the internet even though they had large funerals that were achieved by word of mouth. Without that I would never have found out. Imagine having a broadsheet or tabloid news paper with content that moved around and disappeared when you tried to read it, having permission for cookies flash at you when you turned the page, having adverts shoved in your face that you have to physically remove when you’re trying to look at Samantha Fox on page 3. The adverts are always traditionally placed near the back before the sports section where they are well placed and helpful. Why do people accept this useless crap from the internet?

[@chriswillis4960]

It's not even that ads are bad but rather that advertisers and companies wanting to make money via them are bad, if they tried to make ads that respect the user I dont think people would care, but they want to do targeted ads based on all of peoples information when they could for example, base the idea on the average user of the site (thought I guess for youtube and fb and the like that doesnt work based on the fact that basically everyone uses them). At this point most sites are more ad then content. It gets worse when you consider things like the Honey controversy, that now has it so PayPal is basically stealing commissions by changing the cookies of anyone who interacts with the addon should they have it installed.

[@arthurwintersight7868]

There's something called "contextual advertising," where you generate ads based on the content of the page. "This page is about cars. Let's show car-related ads."

[@42crazyguy]

You're never obliged to view advertisements for any reason. Use adblock whenever possible.

[@josoffat7649]

I think the first youtube video I got like 8 preroll ads was when my line got crossed. Adpoclypse 1 or 2, there's been so many now lol.

[@superNova5837]

KZbin changing how ads working on the TV version to function more like cable tv If I wanted to stop my video that’s what the pause button was for

[@snikrepak]

well, people where dumb and thought that free means good, free actually means that you are the product, just use a ABplus and call it a day, no tears from my eyes from people who loose out on shady ass scam ads

[@christopherdecker3830]

So true!

[@Spikehead777]

Umm, why are ads even allowed to use HTML and JavaScript anyways?

[@dannyd4339]

should be illegal, same goes with copyright

[@DominicRyanOsborne]

Unpopular opinion based on the facts presented in this video Ad spam doesn't compare to international dead Internet brain rot videos devoid of any entertainment value or utility designed to entice interactions based on clickbait and ragebait and yet KZbin uses that as its entire platform

[@weldonyoung1013]

@Old PC Gunk and Stuff what part of the world are you in? I don't recall every seeing a popup stating how many "partners" a website "shares" cookies with. The above does get at internet "regularion". As someone with visual impairment, I truly find popup adverts ridiculous and an utter waste of my time. Why haven't regulators addressed this as an "accessibility issue"? As for what I can do about the current state of adverts on the web: I screenshot all those that don't need immediate attention.

[@joshwa1234]

I'm in the UK - and I agree - pop-ups should not be allowed

[@superNova5837]

iOS user They added a way to his these elements only problem some websites will silently reload those elements My understanding of this boils down to it’s just hiding them when what I really meant was strip out the code for the offending elements Also reader mode being on a site by site basis is pure BS Also when websites don’t seem to have mobile version but zooming in just to see something causes the whole thing to crash repeatedly

[@laurencejohnson4106]

I concur with your comments.

[@linuxenthusiastgamer7189]

have you tried void linux ?? ❤❤

[@joshwa1234]

@@linuxenthusiastgamer7189 not yet!

[@none0049]

what does void have to offer against adverts?

[@linuxenthusiastgamer7189]

@@none0049 actually void linux have less tracker same as antix. but void linux is a self dependent systemd free os

[@davidp4456]

I’d like to see more info on Void.

AdGuard!

[@JulioNatanaell]

Ublockorigin

[@davidp4456]

Is this an ad? 😂

[@jasithpramudaya9013]

Use brave

[@creato938]

I get adverts are needed to keep the internet free to a degree but those websites put way too many ads to the point if you're using in mobile you can barely read an article anymore, i lost count how many times i closed websites on mobile because it was impossible to read anything, basically you get 3 lines of text and the rest is all ads.

[@deathound]

Except the Internet isn't free. You pay the ISPs a chunk of change to gain access lol You pay for internet, then you pay for access to sites on the internet. It's double dipping.

[@mopeybloke]

My left ear got a bit tired by this. I wish KZbin had a command for mono audio for this type of thing.

[@joshwa1234]

@@mopeybloke thanks for letting me know, I'll see if I can keep this in mind for future videos

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Would Your Highness like someone to come over, fluff up the cushions on his throne and massage his tootsies for a few minutes while they are at it? I think the problem is your "goldfish-like" attention span, rather than his audio quality.

[@PapaC-o9b]

Agreed Ad abuse is very bad, here is one of the worse with there do you want to join to stop adds "its punnishing poor people" a lot of folk are having to choose between heating or eating and youtube want to take what little money folk have to stop there abuse.

[@weldonyoung1013]

Adverts are even more abusive to those with vision problems. They are a significant "time killer"!!!

[@montystar]

3:21 how long you think you will remember not to visit that website again? Few months and you will propably make the same decision on that same website.

[@danielktdoranie]

I sent you email regarding this very topic, did you get it?

[@samanthagriffinv2.08]

I don’t know for sure but it could be a safe assumption that he did get your email and that sparked the video idea but it’s hard to say for sure

[@joshwa1234]

Sorry I forgot to reply, I've replied now

[@Eyevou]

Brave's adblock is fairly mediocre, tbh.

[@shaunpatrick8345]

It's always been perfect on the sites I visit.

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

You talk like pop-ups on web sites is a new development.

[@TheBadassplaya]

i'm on the opposite , adblocker ; killing my site , i need script to make my ad stick even with adblockers :(

[@juancarlosaguilarlopez9252]

Ads blockers are the solution but I'm not sure when ad blockers will stop working because of the google new rules on the chrome browser. Since I use Firefox I haven't had any issues with ads.

[@favouranaba8249]

By the way i am from africa

[@davidp4456]

One day Africa will be the industrial powerhouse of the world.

[@favouranaba8249]

No offense

[@favouranaba8249]

Cant see much from your screen

[@yrmuq]

You dont need to see screen to understand)

[@favouranaba8249]

Nice video, but try to edit your videos before uploading them to make it exciting

[@joshwa1234]

Hi, thanks for watching my video, however, my video style is deliberately more relaxed on purpose. Hope you have a look at some of my other videos.