Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "The advertising industry calls us extremists; are you one too?" video.

That number appears to be one of those easily quotable myths. There's an article on it from the Drum, though it's largely inconclusive; the main indication is just that the number was made up rhetoric, as far as it can be traced. More telling is the part where the advertising agency representatives don't want to give a real number. Remember, they're selling the ads, not whatever the ads are for. Also notable, that article remarked on an ad every 3 minutes as being a frightening, overblown and scary proposition. Cable TV, Tiktok and Youtube easily surpass that. 😮
5
Some extremists are extremely worth listening to. For instance, RMS holds the position that software should all be fully user respecting, which he branded as "free software". I think, like the patent system, there could be a more moderate position; e.g. video games could have a window of time when they're not freely reproducible, for rewarding the developers, much like the patent system was intended. Some corporations like Disney and Nintendo hold views at the opposite extreme, that the populace should not have the choice to even maintain their purchased games, let alone share them.
3
Ah, the summarized anarchist manifesto.
3
 @RicardoSantos-oz3uj I'd argue the problem is "think of the children" is nearly always a convenient shortcut to prevent thinking.
2
IAB was founded off the deep end. They've never been interested in moving towards sanity; that would be counter to their entire purpose.
2
Ads and tracking do not need to be bundle deals at all. They're both disturbing, but you can easily have either without the other. I suspect ads related to the content topic are far more successful than ones targeting the user.
1
Not the only thing. They also make the ads more and more aggressive; this is why the ads scream at you the first seconds. The irritated targets will find a way to leave, so they try to exploit the reaction time.
1
 @test-rj2vl Bare women? Doesn't matter one bit. Direct fraud attempts, like about half of youtube's ads today? Those should be treated as the attempted crime they are.
1
Yeah, Microsoft converting Windows to a tracking ad platform is one of the more user hostile things in recent days. I recommend free software like Debian; while they have their growing pains, it's a culture based on cooperation rather than exploitation. (Lots of bickering around too, but some genuine problem solving.)
1
How much are you offering? He is a paid liar in the first place, so you'll have to outbid his other options.
1
I can recall a purchase I made based on a relevant ad. I purchased the mod mat from Gamers' Nexus. This has nothing to do with the IAB, as the advertisement was not a sold one but a first party segment (skippable, unlike e.g. the propaganda in DVDs). It's vastly different from the sold ad spots which try to hold me captive, immediately scream at me, usually lie throughout and bear no relevance. I was already interested in getting an antistatic work surface, though I didn't know earlier GN made them. The ad showed and described the product. In contrast, I recently made the decision I'm not getting an LG OLED TV after all, because of their subscription plans. I want to own my devices. I also want to maintain them, like replacing the battery before it explodes.
1
It still works for me; I had to disable it to dismiss a popup, but could turn it back on after that. The symptom was that the video would keep pausing itself.
1
Much of the really cool stuff from them went into Intel (networking) and AMD (e.g. Slot A). Their history is fascinating, including outperforming IBM in miniaturisation and efficiency and naming the PDP to evade restrictions. Oh, and the DEC Bitsy is the archetype for our modern handheld computers (later marketed as iPAQ), a variation of the Itsy, an ARM-powered microserver.
1
I'm an extremist! I hold the extreme opinion that accusations do not imply (in the logical sense, i.e. prove) guilt, and that punishment, if used, should be scalable to relevance. For instance, I believe copying a music recording is less serious than murder, and fictional tales are less serious than direct abuse of people, even if drawn as pictures. Another of my questionable beliefs is that ideas for legislation should be weighed more by their societal effects than the income of the organisation that proposed them. I find it sad how the word "moderate" has been coopted in politics, by the way. Far less extreme is my opinion that Youtube ostensibly letting fraudsters (the biggest ad category here) set the rules is a bad idea. Always remember, the first target of marketers is the ad buyers. Their goal is profit for themselves, not their "clients". That's a con game itself, with the "DRM" business providing an egregious example (making products worse to allay induced fears, with only one winner - and that's not the publishers or authors).
1
Youtube's automated captions are available on this video now, though I can't vouch for their accuracy.
1
Frankly, that sounds like you've fallen into the false binary trap. May I recommend CGP Grey's "This video will make you angry"?
1
XKCD 870 applies.
1
As The Onion remarked to the Supreme Court in an amicus brief, it's becoming hard to satirize the world when it's so often more insane than we can imagine.
1
It's interesting how many sites think a full page coverup preventing any use of their site is totally critical and a better option than just not storing meaningless identifiers on every visitor's computers. They just think tracking has to be done, and precisely that clumsily, no matter what.
1
Guess what the most effective advertising model around is? Shareware. Basically "the first hit is free", usually a portion of the program is free and you request payment for the rest. You may have heard of it as demos. Apps don't need ads and never have. Secondly, there are absolutely a lot of things shared freely. Sadly, Youtube's model isn't of the teasing kind, it's of the extortion kind; they're degrading what they already provided instead of offering more.
1