I find it crazy how desperate those companies are to push ads to sell products nobody can afford anyway in this economy.

@stefan514

2 ай бұрын

Your comment shows how bubbles work. You think your subjective impression represents reality. People still spend huge amounts on all kind of unnecessary nonsense every day

@briancho237

2 ай бұрын

Surprisingly, advertisements do help a lot depending on the company. I remember when my old company massively cut marketing budget and the company quickly went to absolute shit. It was funny to see them scramble to get marketing department back up and running again.

@Diogo85

2 ай бұрын

What other company is doing what Roku is about to do with HDMI right now?

@daeryk6424

2 ай бұрын

*Reprogramming.*

@daeryk6424

2 ай бұрын

@@Diogo85 All of 'em. They just haven't discovered their own thing yet.

Louis Rossman is an American treasure. We need to protect him at all costs

@jupiterthree5228

2 ай бұрын

I like him. I watch his videos sometimes. He's funny and has good information.

@WallNutBreaker524

2 ай бұрын

Facts. Just came across him due to Piracy and Privacy concerns.

@strikeforcealpha9343

2 ай бұрын

He'll be fine, as long as he doesn't work for Boeing.

@Agent-mb1xx

2 ай бұрын

@@strikeforcealpha9343 or the DNC

@IrnMaiden304

2 ай бұрын

Some people had said he compromised on his " Right to repair bill ", saying they took out it's " Teeth " from the original proposed bill. I don't know how true that is though, can't say I read it.

preroll ads are the worst. So many times I'll open a twitch stream, see it says "ad 1 of 6" or something, and just close twitch.

@justinnelson4530

2 ай бұрын

1 of 1 is enough for me to close it. Why am I getting ads before I even start watching the show. At least let me get comfortable.

@hedgehogform

2 ай бұрын

I recommend using Twitch™ Adblock Plus browser extension. works flawlessly.

@abadenoughdude300

Ай бұрын

@@justinnelson4530 Because you're supposed to watch the ads, not the stream. It's how there was this saying about television that it's a series of ads interrupted by movies or other stuff. Internet is going in the same direction because we just can't have nice things.

@francestaylor9156

Ай бұрын

@@abadenoughdude300- paying for things to be ad free is the best thing ever. We’ve been an ad free home for 15 years. Going to other homes where they have cable tv on feels like psychological warfare. The clarity of one’s mind is noticeable when you live ad free. Especially nowadays with all the crazy political stuff in ads now. We have no idea what those ads are though bc we’ve never seen them. We only know about them when they get commented on by KZreadrs we follow. I don’t even use social media like my husband does so he sees a lot more ads than I do.

@orcishh

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's mindblowing. I'll only watch twitch once in a blue moon if there's an ad blocker that works for it. Twitch is one of the worst.

When you see an unsolicited ad, it is a mental reminder to NOT interact with the advertised product or service.

@urduib

2 ай бұрын

100% spot on. They go on my black list. Sony and McDonalds just got of my 20 years black list. I take no BS from anyone.

@anonymous-wx8ly

2 ай бұрын

My brother does that too

@megaplexXxHD

2 ай бұрын

When i see an ad i never interact with it😂

@lowvolume4494

Ай бұрын

That only really works with the ads you remember. We can see 100's of ads everyday. Ads work by exploiting the human trait of preferring familiar things. Subconsciously you will be attracted to things that are familiar regardless of whether you make a mental blacklist. we're not immune to propaganda

@playmsbk

Ай бұрын

@@lowvolume4494 yeah, but humans can train themselves to recontextualize positive or negative feedback.

I hate advertisements so much. Bombarded since birth. I go out of my way to avoid the product if i see it in an add now.

@yummyjks909

2 ай бұрын

haha same

@angelpayano6813

2 ай бұрын

Yeah man, not a single youtube or instagram ad has worked on me, I just press skip until it goes away.

@ThisIsmiXTV

2 ай бұрын

It has that effect on me already. If the video im really getting into gets stopped midway multiple times, interruoting my viewing, how does the advertiser think thats going to make me think positively about their brand?

@ZomboidMania

2 ай бұрын

​@@King-O-Hellwant a break from the ads?😈😈

@ZeallustImmortal

2 ай бұрын

​@@SimonWoodburyForgetNope. If I see an ad for soda it makes soda sound gross. I drink water from my own well and pretty much nothing else.

1:17 4 years ago I walked in on my mom watching this EAXACT commercial. She was all up in arms about her car being used to spy on her. It took almost two hours of explaining to her the reality of the situation. There are tens of millions of people like my mom without someone to talk sense to them. It's sad and terrifying. What this ad campaign is attempting to do is make it illegal for you to have your car serviced by a local mechanic. They want to make it so you HAVE to take it to the officially licensed mechanics than will charge you an arm and a leg. They're using the mental vulnerability of boomers to scare them into giving up their freedom. It's unbelievable how evil ad companies are.

@incoherentthinker

2 ай бұрын

EAXACT 🫣

@lamelama22

2 ай бұрын

Yea it was a series of ads too, not the just the one he watched here. The other one I remember was someone magically stealing your garage door code from your car, then using it to get in the house & it was implied m*rder / r**e a whole family. With no explanation other than "if you vote for this, this is what will happen!"... i.e. if you are allowed to repair the circuit board in your own car.... :-/ It was terrifying for people that had no idea what was actually going on.

@donmexico2850

2 ай бұрын

I didn't even see the commercial and just thought it was a no-brainer. Vote passed with like 75%, so I don't think they were fooling anybody in the end.

@brokencreationlordmegatrol3037

2 ай бұрын

the amount of times i have had to educate my own bother mother is wild

@ryproar11

2 ай бұрын

Wait until people realize electric cars are ALWAYS SPYING ON YOU. The mechanic would be the least of your concerns when your Tesla shuts down over something you said on X or Facebook. It is already happening too. 😂

Best ads are those 1 minute unskippable ads for a 6 second video

@urduib

2 ай бұрын

KZread actually pushed 10 hour adds on me for a 5 min video.

@antnuh765

2 ай бұрын

Yeah they gave me a 1 million hour ad for a 1 second video once it was so crazy

@clashingimages

2 ай бұрын

I didn’t even get to watch my video because the ad just kept repeating.

@alexapexgod4643

Ай бұрын

They used to put a whole episode of a show as a advertisement back in 2016

We'll soon all end up with TV's like in the movie Idiocracy where you have like a 100" TV but the content you watch is just a 30" frame and the other 70" around it are constant ads.

@rushyscoper1651

2 ай бұрын

i think the business model doesn't make sense, ads exist for services that are free. the TV that doesn't have ads will always the one that get bought its more like they deludedly trying to have a services like YT or facebook to change their business model.

@ajworks5958

2 ай бұрын

Yep we are already halfway there…

@DuvalRypr

2 ай бұрын

That movie has come closer and closer to reality every year.

@ArayaRetta

Ай бұрын

Japanese internet be like:

@abadenoughdude300

Ай бұрын

You know, as long as one could mute those ads or cover them up with tape or whatever I'm not sure if that still would be a preferred option over having the thing you're watching interrupted every 10 minutes by dumb ads.

With a huge chunk of ads being scams or malware, I will ALWAYS block ads. I do not give a shit if they hurt websites or channels.

@JesiAsh

2 ай бұрын

Who even runs to a shop to buy any shit from those ads...

@SmugLilBugger

2 ай бұрын

Legit. Companies cry like bitches at the notion of Adblockers and go "SOB SOB YOU CANT SKIP THIS IT GIVES ME MONEY TO KEEP ME AFLOAT!!" while they put "Hot single moms in your area" ads on their websites that lead to Trojan viruses and malware. You just can't feel bad for these people. They compromise the safety of people who browse their websites and then cry like babies when people block them. If they did their due diligence and paid attention to WHAT they advertise and make sure it's honest and safe advertisers, then it's fair game. As it stands, that's probably like 5% of websites. Not even KZread is doing this right.

@turkpowered9978

2 ай бұрын

This is the way.

@mbergamin16

2 ай бұрын

Ad blocker and the extention to re-enable the dislike button are a must. 💯

@Vinztre

2 ай бұрын

@@JesiAsh The thing is that ads work exceptionally well on us no matter what you believe. They suck, but ads absolutely boost sales on products due to our psychology and the research they have and do on it

"I dont think youtube ads are that bad but I have an adblock" this is what we call a classic asmon take

@konaqua122

2 ай бұрын

He isn't wrong and I actually agree on that. But I don't think you can adblock a TV.

@kirerunte1046

2 ай бұрын

​@konaqua122 that's why I stopped buying console and only use PC, since the console requires a TV and the TV does this nonsense, I'll just stick to a cheap laptop at this point, heck coatco is selling a 3050 i7 for 800 bucks so alot of stuff is affordable if ur like me and spend money on nothing and do nothing

@perky7957

2 ай бұрын

@@konaqua122or phone 😢

@user-sg1lt3kz4b

2 ай бұрын

“You should have to watch ads if you don’t pay for the content…. *2 minutes later* “Of course I use ad blocker” He gets worse every week

@KombatJester

2 ай бұрын

​@@perky7957 If you have Android, look into "Revanced". I haven't watched an ad on my phone in years for KZread or twitch.

imagine pausing to read something on the screen suddenly ad tearing you out of the thing your paying attention to

Netflix ads are crazy too. Can’t skip, long, and auto pauses if it’s not the current window in view. Cancelled my subscription

@DragoX7

2 ай бұрын

Netflix did what...

@richarddevenezia8186

Ай бұрын

Hulu is way worse

@alexapexgod4643

Ай бұрын

@@DragoX7read it again

@DragoX7

Ай бұрын

@@alexapexgod4643 doesn't have ads for me

@user-zo9ld9jo2q

24 күн бұрын

Peacock

I remember when they sold you on the idea if you paid for cable, there would be no ads.

@Splarkszter

2 ай бұрын

Damn. And Netflix became the exact same.

@Dr-Mofo

2 ай бұрын

It's at the point where torrenting shows on prime video even if you have a prime sub makes sense lmao

@moriarty1682

2 ай бұрын

My mate just started paying the extra for ad free on prime, but now they are putting "trailers" on for there own products 🤦

@Spyrit2011

2 ай бұрын

@@moriarty1682 Doesn't it seem like the more we pay the more ads we get?

@moriarty1682

2 ай бұрын

@Spyrit2011 I grew up in the days of putting the kettle on during ad's and they made the volume louder so you would hear them In the UK, my youngest moans about the ads on KZread, I'm like little man you have no idea what it was like to watch a late film and it get interrupted by the 10 o clock news 😄, but it is getting worse and worse, the ad rates are imploding so they are pushing them harder

Everytime your LG television get a upgrade you have check that "information selling" option is still off because it can be reseted to default.

@rumfordc

2 ай бұрын

same with Firefox

@TrazynPrime

2 ай бұрын

“Accidentally”

@urduib

2 ай бұрын

LG did illegal stuff already +15 years ago. Also so true with default setting on updates. When i update netflix on my phone it resets my password so i need code again. So i can only update on the day my code runs out.

@abadenoughdude300

Ай бұрын

Sounds like Windows. At this point it legit might be easier to count things that don't reset settings on updates lol.

“I get paid for your ads but i dont give a shit use adblocker” what a chad

@danielgaughan4243

11 күн бұрын

what’s a chad?

this guy is very dedicated and an OG in the phone repair business, now he's turned to helping the public after seeing many things wrong with technology and consumer rights

@danielgaughan4243

11 күн бұрын

absolutely

This poor guy has been fucked by NYC taxes and bs. He moved, and is happier than ever

@Victor-qk7mw

2 ай бұрын

Yes! I've been following him for some years now, he's deserves it

@DyceFreak

2 ай бұрын

Still has ptsd induced neuroticism clearly; but yes, happier than ever.

@MARKHENSTROM

2 ай бұрын

Louis is a good man. I listened to a great number of his core rants/philosophies while backpacking some years ago. Pleasure to listen to. But he needs to upload MORE CAT VIDEOS. Or else...I'm gonna have to UNSUBSCRIBE... :P

@CUBEoneVX

2 ай бұрын

He is still being harassed by NY even when he moved to Texas.

@lavishlyvice

2 ай бұрын

@@DyceFreak thank you, o' wise armchair therapist

It’s because the short term profits translate DIRECTLY into bonuses for executives who will be gone before the consequences hit the company.

@fondbeebboop9705

2 ай бұрын

never even thought of this but it makes so much sence

@Me__Myself__and__I

2 ай бұрын

Bingo! Almost all problems with large companies / capitalism over the last couple of decades are due to "share holder value" and incredibly short-sighted executives looking to maximize the stock price right now and get their bonuses - without any thought to long-term consequences. We can thank Harvard for this stupidity, apparently they are the ones who drove this view of how corporations should be managed. Its bad for everyone except the executives and the day traders.

@PsyDei

2 ай бұрын

Yep, always thought that if companies didn’t have to carry the burden of paying those executives, they wouldn’t be this trashy.

@liarwithagun

Ай бұрын

The short term profits also raise the stocks in the short term, which also pleases the shareholders (which often includes said executive officers). By the time the rooster comes home to roost the original executive officers and all the large shareholders have left and sell and moved to do the same to another company.

@madarah8533

Ай бұрын

Thats by design

I keep seeing this guy in every major internet freedom fight He is so nice that he tells you not to give him money because he do rather not have it and the average user being safer from malicious ads, jesus, I subbed and I usually never do

This is true. I saw that disclaimer that you have to agree to on the Roku channel while I was helping my mom stream a show she wanted to watch. I read the terms and it makes you waive the right to file a class action lawsuit vs. them. So I explained it to her and asked "do you think you might have a reason to sue Roku at any time in the future?" And she said she didn't care, she just wanted to watch her show. So I agreed to it and let her watch the old episodes of Gunsmoke that she wanted to watch. TV used to be free. I talk to my dad a lot about the good ol' days back in like the 1950's when when was growing up. There was no cable subscription, you just had an antenna and that's what you could get and the way the monetized it was commercials. I absolutely hate how much technology has allowed us to spy on each other and take advantage of each other. I hate how greedy our society has become. Some greed is ok, even healthy to some extent. But it's so easy for the companies to do this because of 1. how addicted people are to technology. 2. don't care. and 3. are technologically illiterate. And our boomer government officials who can barely turn on their computers to read an email are the ones who are supposed to put laws in place to protect us, which you know they will never do. Protect yourselves as best you can.

@ianover6838

2 ай бұрын

Those companies should know by now that I don't have the money they think I have

@TheMr02drop

2 ай бұрын

@@ianover6838 If you have any money then you have too much money in their eyes. That should be their money.

@3nertia

2 ай бұрын

"I don't care, I just want to watch my show" - almost as if the system has cultivated an army of obedient drones :/ And, no, greed is never healthy in a species that evolved social structure ...

@3nertia

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMr02drop Welcome to capitalism - Profits over People!

@thorbjornson533

11 күн бұрын

The reality is that if a situation arises where a lawsuit could be brought against them, nothing in those terms would prevent any of the users, agreed to it or not, from doing so. This has been shown time and time again. Those are not legally binding.

Just checked my Roku TV and yep, privacy disabled by default.

@piefrosty319

2 ай бұрын

Same with my LG found it last week when I moved it and reset the setting

@briareus3

2 ай бұрын

@@piefrosty319 Something I found out today since my earlier comment, when you update software it will default to Yes, so check it every time after an update.

@Splarkszter

2 ай бұрын

I suggest getting a mini-pc (NUC type, AMD based are awesome) they are very small and really good.

@AyoKeito

2 ай бұрын

Enabling privacy doesn't fix the problem tho, it still transfers a lot of data, just "doesn't sell it" KAPPA You better keep your TV off the network OR block their domains if you can be bothered to google that info Also this applies to all TVs. If you care about privacy and no ads, don't hope for a switch in settings, search how to properly get rid of them. Most of the modern routers can.

internet without ad blocker is literally unusable, it's like an adhd simulator on steroids if you keep that shit running.

@orsikocs

2 ай бұрын

Latest bs is that amazon prime now has ads too yay🎉 i pay for nothing

@jimspock

2 ай бұрын

@@orsikocs Cancelled mine as soon as they started that shiz

Imagine pausing your game to change the settings and you can't now because a fucking ad is playing

The one thing I am a little bit disappointed to have not been mentioned by Ross, is the fact, that any party having the ability to read out your button presses and react to them pro-actively, poses a severe security risk. This means, effectively, that they can read out your pins and passwords too.

Welcome to Demolition Man, Robocop and Blade Runner in real life

@chickenwings6172

2 ай бұрын

Have joy joy feelings

@danielhayes3607

2 ай бұрын

Equilibrium

@NecroChungus

2 ай бұрын

I'm not convinced that civilization doesn't crumble from its growing delusions eating away at its foundation, long before it gets that weird. Demolition man isn't that far off though

@mazraelventacus914

2 ай бұрын

What is your boggle?

@justinhearst

2 ай бұрын

You've seen none of those movies in their entirety have you?

the most annoying commercials? The ones with AI voices.

@nateshepardson1204

2 ай бұрын

Yup, Dr. Squatch started doing that and their ad quality tanked.... They were great once upon a time

@genertec

2 ай бұрын

50 minute scam ad in a youtube video right after an unskippable 30 sec clip.

@cecollins68

2 ай бұрын

​@@nateshepardson1204I swear if I open a video and hear *"this damn deal again"* that ai voice drives me insane, I thought they were just meming but I seems they really did change up there ads fully to AI

@prime12602

2 ай бұрын

Yeah ads aren’t worth watching anymore, they used to be entertaining.

@dakawans83

2 ай бұрын

Haven't you heard about this amazing high school student that it putting the heating industry on notice with his brand new device that can heat a home 10X better and cheaper than anything else!!?!?!?!?!!?

…Why does everyone forget that electronics manufacturing was a large and successful market (especially TVs) for decades before all this data-collection stuff existed? It’s possible to run a business without being that predatory.

@davidandrews5262

Ай бұрын

Stock market is the problem. Making a good product for a decent profit isn't good enough for stock market. You must grow. Otherwise it's "bad" and that's why Sony can't just make devices. That have to make devices cheaper. And also harvest data.

We should be able to refund and return any product that they change or force you to accept terms and conditions that you do not agree with. If there is no "reject" button and/or if you cannot use the device without accepting those terms, you should be able to return the device and get a full refund, no questions asked. The terms and conditions were not visible to you before buying it. So you should be 100% able to return the device because you can only read the terms after you bought it. I have no idea how there is no legislation for this yet... not even in the EU.

@solouno2280

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't refund fall guys...

He's talking about ads when you watch your series dvd box. Imagine getting ads over your wedding tape or other personal, self produced content...

@h1ko393

Ай бұрын

Give them time...

@abadenoughdude300

Ай бұрын

At this rate I'm expecting a patent for running ads when your device is turned off.

If this becomes a thing, you know someone is gonna make an HDMI adblocker thing you physically connect between the TV and HDMI cable.

@jer1776

2 ай бұрын

Adblocking cables.. what a world were going to be living in soon lol

@dampintellect

2 ай бұрын

We already have hdmi intercepting tech for streaming or even things like aimbots. Should be a little modification to the arduinos people already use and we are good to go, no HDMI injected ads. Tech warfare.

@M1ndzor

2 ай бұрын

Not possible if tv on it's own is gonna intecept hdmi signal scan it for content and start displaying ads at it's own leasure to output. The wa to adblock that shit would be custom firmware of maybe even hardware hacks, but nothing you do to a cable would stop it.

@de14jabs

2 ай бұрын

At that point, touching grass and picking up a hobby where you're actually doing something is better. It is already, but for those who keep making excuses not to it would be the time to just drop all of this stuff

@alexivanov2737

2 ай бұрын

@M1ndzor at the current point it'd make sense to not buy a smart TV but buy a laptop and additional big diagonal display for watching content.

Back in around 2010 my ex thought I was crazy saying our phones were literally listening to us to push ads. I brought up Yoshimitsu from Tekken at a party one night, we were in the living room(she doesn't play games). She went to go check her facebook later on in the night on her laptop in her room and got ads for something Yoshimtsu related and it freaked her out. Somehow that wasn't enough to convince her, so she bought a wire tap (alexa). The relationship ended up falling apart for unrelated reasons. Now people just say "well I have nothing to hide, so let them spy." The future is bleak.

@anonymous5401

2 ай бұрын

literally cyberpunk mentality its scary.

"high end TV's subsidizes low end TV's" Nope. It's actually the complete opposite. in 6 months in a electronics store in a area with ~70k people I alone never went a single day without selling a TV. Most bought TV? The ones that cost ~700 bucks, maybe closer to 900. Did we have a decent margin on those? Yes we did. The amount of times I sold high end TV's? Those select few, at most once a week, that came walking into the store knowing exactly what they wanted and half the time the store had a 10-20% loss at _normal_ pricing. 2500 bucks and we lost almost 300, because we had to have that model in store or they'd go someplace else. The regular models? If someone bought both a cheap wall mount and they opted for the first decent soundbar (second or third cheapest we had) they would likely be getting the wall mount for free, or if it was more expensive closer to 50% off because margins were already good enough on the TV itself which allowed me to make those deals. Either way, putting in roadblocks or majorly altering a bought and paid physical product that is now in your ownership withing 5 years of purchase is grounds for a full refund here in Norway, especially if it severely diminishes the function of the product as advertised upon purchase. It's not legal and the EU won't let it fly.

It's been like 5 years since I saw an add. I'll do the gymnastics to avoid adds, no matter how many roadblocks.

@janitorizamped

2 ай бұрын

Even if it's mental gymnastics to convince you that all the ads that you've seen aren't actually ads

@madmantheepic7278

2 ай бұрын

for real, at this point i dont care if it takes longer to view the content rather than just watching the ad, i'm willing to waste more time out of spite.

@R3_Live

2 ай бұрын

But when's the last time you saw a subtract?

@RiteshKumarPanda

2 ай бұрын

@@madmantheepic7278 definitely , whenever i try surf the internet on my brother's phone or my friends pc i die of cringe seeing all the pop ups and this ad and that ad more ads than the content i can not use the internet without ad blockers , and pop up ads might be the worst invention ever , it is like internet pollution

@Ugotsomemilk

2 ай бұрын

got to the point i installed sponsorblock for KZread, and whitelist only channels i know, make their sponsor interesting (Internet Historian type etc.) I dont watch ads on Twitch, YT or any website and rather wait 15s for a site to load than be bombarded with trash.

cats: i want attention, like now human: im busy cats: i mean now, like NOW human: ok fine cats: tehehehe -runs away- human: you little

@Splarkszter

2 ай бұрын

:3

@hubert1142

2 ай бұрын

Dude i have customers in almost a hundred countries - I do business/tech meetings from my place all day every day. When one of my cats wants attention/food/door opened I just tell the suits/engineers to wait up cos my cat comes first. Zero issues so far :D

@vandavang7

2 ай бұрын

@@hubert1142 dude, its like, totally like, ok to be like, idk, busy.

@hubert1142

2 ай бұрын

@@vandavang7 ikr

AD companies: "It's not an Ad. It's a screen saver"

louis rossmann is a proud ex nyc resident. he has so many videos of him being a victim of incompetence on the part of nyc government. he is now a proud texan. i hope that the rest of his days are as happy as the days he left nyc.

“So the cat would be like an advertisement right now” lmao

@evanhughes9899

2 ай бұрын

I hate those catmercials...

@LeftyPencil

Ай бұрын

Imagine back to back Meow Mix commercials

ads should be paying us for wasting our time

I once bought a power plug that I could turn on and off with Google Assistant. I had to make an account on the company's website and consent to data collection before I could use the device to turn my Christmas tree lights on and off by saying "hey google". It was the same with my LG TV. I thought it would be cool to turn my TV on and off. Instead I had to create an LG account, consent to data collection, link the two accounts, consent to more data sharing between the accounts, and ended up with this response when I said "Hey google, turn on my TV". "Ok, asking LG to turn on your TV." followed by an 5-10 second pause before it finally turns my TV on. It was so useless I could just go find the remote and turn it on myself.

I permanently boycott all products and services that force me to watch their ads, or interrupt my time online.

Its becoming more and more obvious that a class action suit needs to happen and congressional reform needs to take place. Luckily my congressman is pretty aggressive and ill be more than happy to bring it to their attention. I am so tired of companies rewriting their ToS AFTER a deal. This is my original youtube account when youtube was first launched and before it was purchased by google. I never consented to any of their crap. Which is why I LEGALLY use blockers to this day. This crap is not going to stop until we start filing lawsuits. Plain and simple.

@RedDevil2557

2 ай бұрын

KZread even still allows old type of accounts to be transfered to new system even. Can't remember link though

@ZaHandle

2 ай бұрын

This man is destined to kill the AI overlords

@alexsynthesis

2 ай бұрын

It needs to be a lawsuit with so much money involved that every company will think twice about doing what they did again. No more 1 million or 2 million lawsuits. We need to hit them first 20 or 30 billion per infraction. I guarantee all this non sense would stop overnight. Cuz that’s enough money to put even google out of business .

@AnemAknees

2 ай бұрын

Our “politicians” are more so corporate talking heads, we need to ban them from trading stocks first.

@spider-woman9482

2 ай бұрын

@@ZaHandle Why do I hear boss music?

If the ads subsidize the tv, than let me pay the non subsidized price instead of getting a stalker box.

The problem with this is they have taken it to the extreme. I DO pay for say, amazon prime. I pay amazon every year. The point was the pay for it and NOT see ads. Now i have ads. What the hell.

I knew ROKU was up to something… When they can “Update” your TV remotely, expect it to be abused.

Problem with streaming services if you pay and they still force you to watch ads. You have to pay on top of your subscription to remove the ads. This ad war is getting stupid.

@natmarelnam4871

2 ай бұрын

The cheapest teir wouldn't be viable without ads....... Ads didn't ruin the cheap option. Being cheap only gets you the worst option. Different things / problems. Its usually like $2 more to remove ads, you can do it, I believe in you.

@zhongliimpact6220

2 ай бұрын

best way is to quit their service and download their stuffs

@kroyre

2 ай бұрын

@@natmarelnam4871 If you pay , there should be no ads. If they need more money ,raise the price of your service and risk people cancelling their service or pirate the content. Even so, stuff like this will make people pirate the content .

@WyattOShea

2 ай бұрын

@@zhongliimpact6220 yaaaaaar

@edgarava1

2 ай бұрын

The torrent and sharing world should continue because of this problem but instead it is dying, we should bring it back!!!

Ads in something people pay for make them return to the glorious seas of piracy and they will hit a point where ads are so bad that they will feel literally no remorse for it.

@australienski6687

2 ай бұрын

Piracy is supported by ads though lol. Difference is the ads are subtle and don't ruin the experience.

@Splarkszter

2 ай бұрын

​@@australienski6687Not really. If you watch ads if you pirate you are doing it wrong. The real high seas are torrents, not a website that let's you download files with malware.

We are slowly heading into a technocratic dystopia.

@DragoX7

2 ай бұрын

Ready player one - how many ads can they fit on your screen before inducing seizures lol.

@3nertia

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to capitalism! We have an entire genre called cyberpunk dedicated to what a dystopian nightmare technology will become under capitalism ...

Murphy's law. Don't connect your TV to the internet.

@namelessbrown

2 ай бұрын

You'll be stuck with cable television then.

@GlyphAbiff

2 ай бұрын

@@namelessbrownlmao. No, most people use an accessory like an Xbox or PlayStation to access their streaming services. You can connect them to the internet but not your tv.

@Freyar

2 ай бұрын

They'd require a mobile app to activate the TV so they can pull mobile data too.

@ayesaac

2 ай бұрын

​@@namelessbrown or just use an old laptop and a HDMI cable. 🙃

@Krimzj

2 ай бұрын

I don’t think you understand Murphy’s Law

Hulu did this back in the day. They even had a commercial stating they don't have ADs like the other streaming services.....then they adopted ADs even when buying for service.

I detest and loathe all ads and any firm or service that gets through blockers and protection and reaches my eyeballs guarantees that it will never gain my custom.

the problem with youtube ads is that the frequency is totally disproportionate to the length of content consumed

Everyone gave me shit for not buying smart tvs

@mr.bonezy1206

2 ай бұрын

Broken clock is right twice a day.

@Michael18751

2 ай бұрын

People thought I was crazy to keep my TV "dumb" by keeping it offline.

@dannymitchell6131

2 ай бұрын

Smart TVs were made for idiots. Oh you watch Netflix? Roku? Hulu? Wow, that's super impressive. I could do that with my OLED/PC...I could but why? I have access to every movie and every show from any platform. All for free with no ads. But not if you have a "smart" TV. Oh Netflix took down the 2 shows you actually liked? Dang. Maybe pay them more money?

@lootmaster1337

2 ай бұрын

I got a dumb tv with a chromecast that i can unplug, sadly getting any new one without it is quite hard to find

@WinPC99

2 ай бұрын

Don’t connect them to the internet. I only connect mine to update the software. Then I forget my WiFi network on it and just use my Apple TV. It’s perfect

Smart TVs are pure fuking cancer. My computer monitor died, no pc shops in my town so I got the cheapest smart TV from Walmart as a short term replacement. The damn thing literally wouldn't let me do anything without going through the full set up process on my phone and make an account. Took it back the next day and demanded a full refund.

@calibursatsujin3112

2 ай бұрын

yeah i was lucky enough to have an older tv with only the most basic smart features from the earlier days of this bs, if you don't just happen to have an older tv you're screwed because they can just reach into your tv and change whatever they want now. this doesn't stop with ads

@Icewind007

2 ай бұрын

I mean, what do you expect from Walmart's cheapest products?

@darkhorsedre

2 ай бұрын

@@Icewind007 You say that, my I own 2 samsung smart tvs and they try to force the Samsung livetv rubbish and ads. Ah and the firmware updates with no release notes. noice

@Zorish373

2 ай бұрын

Why no adblock? The moment Im forced to watch ad, I just stop using youtube. It's that simple.

@howdoichangemyprofilepictu9839

2 ай бұрын

​@darkhorsedre you used to only jailbreak iphones... now people are gonna figure out how to jailbreak tvs...

I remember when we were first introduced to HD cable service, the two selling points were, 1. Good quality and 2. No Ads. Now you see more of ad than the show.

This is actually crazy that they can get away with this, i am never going to buy a TV with adds on it

I don't like watching ads because tolerating ads encourages companies treating me like a consumer instead of like a customer.

@danzig-mfer

2 ай бұрын

if they ain't paying for my time I ain't going to watch it.

@3nertia

2 ай бұрын

There is no difference and the fact that you think there is why they've been so successful :)

@GamingLovesJohn

2 ай бұрын

@@3nertiaFound the corporate bootlicker.

I work in ads. During my 4 years doing this, i've come across so many clients that just want a certain thing pushed, no matter what. to the point where i had a superior tell me "Even though its sad, its not important what you want to do. Its what the client wants to do" That day i will propably remember forever

@Splarkszter

2 ай бұрын

And there's were you should quit

@lich109

2 ай бұрын

​@@SplarkszterAnd be left without a job at all, brilliant.

@melloyello6464

2 ай бұрын

sounds like the dumbest job ever bro

@Shavaaa

2 ай бұрын

@@melloyello6464 its actually pretty cool, you get to work with all kinds of people from various professions and learn which ones to avoid. Im in the fortuous position to be able to have a say in what clients we take and who not, making the creation and research process always pretty insightful as the fields may vary heavily

@ianover6838

2 ай бұрын

@@lich109 "I was just following orders"

Those Ad blockers aren't enough were KZread is concerned for my PC. When I learned that the KZread was basically bombing my systems memory usage I had to go find me an alternative in Freetube, and it's amazing how much faster my photoshop program runs now by not playing videos through KZread.

youtube also has this ad mechanic that when paused after about 5-10 seconds you will get this popup ad that usually accompanies the actual ad (I am using a phone to watch yt) and also the popup is somewhat inconsistent

Great to see Asmon finally watching more of Louis videos and help bring more attention to all of the anti-repair BS

sites that interrupt you when you are scrolling i immediately leave or block.

I think a reason that they’re pushing ads so hard right now is because of the switch from cable tv, to streaming services and personalized content. Everybody in the world used to watch commercials for 5 out of every 25 minutes it seemed, now you can just get a free blocker and watch KZread or ad free Netflix or any other streaming service, with zero commercials. Imagine if you’re building a new company with tons of promise and you’re trying your damndest to spread the word about your product/services. Or you’re an old well known company with a new service and you’re trying to get the word out. But everybody is watching ad free Netflix and nobody reads newspapers anymore, everything is through Facebook and KZread and instagram and X, and everybody’s using ad blockers, like how tf? I think we need to be more okay with ads, the problem is we can see the same ad 5x over again like raid shadow legends. It would be better if there were actual good ads, instead of the bottom feeder ones.

Louis Rossmann is an amazing man. Fighting for the rights of people to repair the shit they already own. Laughable that the guy who commented to Asmond thinks he needs ad revenue from youtube, as if its his main source of income, when the video content is for consumer awareness and education. Its also a gripe outlet for him that he uses to complain, justifiably, about all the shit the governments and companies do that piss him off. Trust me guys Louis is not doing youtube for ad revenue. Its exposure and marketing for his right to repair business and cause. I also love my 20 year old Sony Bravia 58 inch, flatscreen, 1080p TV. What little "smart" features it had, have all been abandoned and no longer work, and I love it. I never used them, and I never will. They were and are garbage. The TV's picture is beautiful and I will never get rid of it. Most the shit I watch is streamed from my PC to it via ethernet cable with HDMI to Ethernet dongles on each end. Its fucking amazing, I pirate everything and havent seen a TV ad in at least 15 years. I avoid anything with advertisement. My computer, podcast and audible books supply decades worth of content beyond anything I could ever consume in a lifetime. Go Ad Free Life guys, you will be so much better off for it.

KZread is just as bad. They get more greedy with ads as months go by. We used to have 1 ad, then there was 2 ads, now there's 30 secs worth of about 4-5 ads, now they have a skip button to skip and go straight to your video, bit NOW they have a skip button to skip to another ad?! I've thought about paying monthly for youtube, but now I'm not gonna even bother on principal alone.

@Xgil2Play

2 ай бұрын

Yet you would watch Twitch with 7 unskippable ads. I find KZread to be quite mundane when it comes to ads.

@user-sg1lt3kz4b

2 ай бұрын

@@Xgil2Playwho says he watches twitch? Reeeach

@Xgil2Play

2 ай бұрын

@@user-sg1lt3kz4b Where does Asmongold stream?

@user-sg1lt3kz4b

2 ай бұрын

@@Xgil2Play Twitch, well done. But where are we commenting? I watch Asmon, but I most certainly don’t watch him on twitch. 8-12 hours of him talking dogs hit and reacting to content, who has time for that apart from him.

@Xgil2Play

2 ай бұрын

@@user-sg1lt3kz4b If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. This isn't about you.

KZread app does the "Ad if you pause" thing since they reworked the way the skip button works. So if you pause the video, after a few seconds it will replace the space below the video (such as comments) with a giant ad until you hit play again. I don't know if it's intentional or "just a bug", since I've also seen normal ads replace literally every second video in my recommended feed.

As a professional software engineer, I see no benefit in using tape to cover up your webcam... They sell webcam covers on Amazon, 6pcs for $4, and they have a little slide so you can still use your webcam when you need it. Much better option than getting tape residue all over your phone or laptop.

I once thought to myself 'Eh, what the heck? I'll go ahead and pay for youtube Red and stop using adblock.' And I did, and everything was great... for about 5 months before youtube started giving me ads on videos again even though I was paying them not to- the only difference being that instead of the usual ads, I was getting ads that were urging me to upgrade my subscription plan to a higher tier. That was their one chance, and they blew it. If I'm going to pay for no ads, I expect to get no ads. No exceptions.

@overlord1995

2 ай бұрын

And why would you not just install uBlock Origin like every sensible person?

@TemmiePlays

2 ай бұрын

youre lying. you either stopped paying, or used a diffrent accoun t. Even louis advocated youtube premium, it was a fine proiduct at 9.99

@markmitchell153

2 ай бұрын

​@@TemmiePlaysno he isnt lying test it yourself. When you have paid version they just spam you with ads to upgrade even higher

@TemmiePlays

2 ай бұрын

@@markmitchell153 I’ve been using KZread premium since it was KZread red. Zero ads

@TemmiePlays

2 ай бұрын

@@markmitchell153 upgrade higher ?? To what? You can get KZread music alone, or premium. Or a group plan. You’re a liar too

Thank God for illegal downloads.

@ayanahmed5281

2 ай бұрын

They are trying to add ads illegal downloadz

@krozareq

2 ай бұрын

Hell yes. If the industry wants to see people sick of bullshit, then they just need to see torrenting statistics. Netflix, Disney+, and the others going after customers for more money while injecting ads into the platform is just setting off a Streisand Effect of a new generation learning about the 20+ year-old way of bypassing all that mess.

@bankaihampter2802

2 ай бұрын

​​@@klzeccwozi1290we will be cracking these devices. Like I have HP printer that is hardware cracked to allow use of custom ink. Like in the past I had cracked PSP

@HeroC14

2 ай бұрын

​@@klzeccwozi1290Probably better for humans instead of all this damn stimulation we enslave ourselves to.

The thing i do not understand is how ads work at all, its spawned and entirely new pit of hell yet me personally will go out of my way to never purchase anything that is forcefully shown to me especially after i made sure to block any amd every type of invasive advertising i can.

I feel harassed by ads the moment i wake up. No matter what medium you use. Radio tv Internet. It's like a cult thats stalking me

im just sick of the weird "heroes" game ad with crazy rape implications....

@dyreckta23

2 ай бұрын

Fr right

@garrettphillips479

2 ай бұрын

It’s so fucking cringe. Like who is actually spending money on these weird cringy mobile games

@Basedeath

2 ай бұрын

@@garrettphillips479 The most confusing part for me is how and why they advertise for a completely different game than what they offer.

@kiyozuki1283

2 ай бұрын

@basedeath False advertising should be illegal with stricter punishments imo.

@InvisibleMan-tb8ke

2 ай бұрын

I'm just sick of these scam "government is giving out a free $16,000, but they don't want you to know" ads.

Imagine if you apply this ad patent to each time Asmon pauses a video to add his input. I dread the day.

@4:17 I laughed so hard. "So the cat would be like an advertisement right now" lolololololol

Ads are getting out of control i had an ad recently a bear and a girl doing some weird stuff in the background and a humanoid bear was born as a hero after that like wtf

@overlord1995

2 ай бұрын

WTFFFFFFF

@SyamDaRos-EndoManno

2 ай бұрын

Japanese ads are something else, you are not ready

I’m tired of seeing gambling adds everywhere.

@drmisbad

2 ай бұрын

Same

I remember watching the car commercial in Massachusetts.. No one believed in that garbage and people called them out.

Can't wait to get an ad telling me to download Raid Shadowlegends every time I pause the TV

Tbh I have no idea how ads are even sustainable. Even when I'm not going out of my way to avoid the products they sell out of spite, I can't imagine ever going out of my way to find something I see in an ad. Like my ass can't even relate. Even when purchase is completely accessible, I can't even bring myself to pull my credit card out for things I actually want. Let alone a product that feels they need to sell me on their product for anyone to buy.

@BunjiKugashira42

Ай бұрын

I believe the first step is to create a subconscious desire for the kind of product they're advertising. Like if you see enough car ads, you'll think about replacing your old beat-up car with a new one more often. If you see enough ads for chips, you'll get hungry for something salty and fatty. Once you're in the supermarket it's just a matter of name recognition. The advertisers bank on you not remembering why you know the name of the brand. As long as the name and packaging seem familiar to you, you're more likely to take that product. Sure, you, me, and many people here will actively avoid products that we got annoying ads for. However even we can't remember all the ads that slipped through the filter and most people don't even bother setting up such a filter.

"I dont like the idea that a Consumer unfriendly business model is nessasary to prop up a industry, if an industry cannot exist in a capacity that is freindly and beneficial for the public at large, then it doesnt deserve to exist" - Asmongold

9:00 is some of the smartest shit Asmon has said. A very finite amount of people WILL ALWAYS make sure they dont see ads, but 99% of other people will never venture and research how to stop them outside of just "download this plugin"...It stops there for 99% of the population.

I take the time out of my day to contact companies I find particularly annoying, like the decelopers of "Hero Wars." I tell them that I will never buy or use their product and that I will actively tell everyone I know to avoid them. And then I do that. Loudly. Why do I spend some of my precious free time going to the forums of companies I dislike and explaining, in detail, why I hate them? Spite, pure spite. And I always put a reminder in: that their practices were so bad that they managed to convince a customer or prospective customer to actively campaign against them. Edit: wait... am I fucking Karen!? You know what? Fuck it, I dont even care.

Literally I've had 12 or so minute videos with 5 or more ads. It's absolutely ridiculous and downright bordering on harassment. Put an ad on sure I get it even put 2 in but to sit there and have me essentially watch cable television 2.0 is unacceptable.

i remember how mad i become on adverts on TV in my country 15 years ago from 5 min advert there was 10/15 4/5 times per movie so watching movie 115min long you end up wasting 3hours

@F_Print

2 ай бұрын

As someone who didn't have cable tv growing up, I can't imagine watching a movie with even one ad break in it. We would rent VHS tapes and later DVDs, fast-forward the pre-roll ads then watch it all in one go. I'd be furious if some random clip about ice cream or sportswear started playing in the middle of a movie. I don't know how people tolerate this shit when they already pay for hardware, software and subscriptions.

I cancelled my Netflix, and Disney is next on the chopping block. Despite paying for the "ad-free" tier I still get ads in-between seasons. They don't call them ads, they call them promos to get around it. But they are 100% ads, just ads for their own content. Jellyfin for the win!

They push you toward adblockers by trying to put more and more ads into everything. I don't mind some ads, but it gets worse and worse, they never stop trying to push more.

I can imagine. In my country some cable TV provider inject their own ads over the channels' own ads.

@Gennys

2 ай бұрын

In America there's stuff like that where local commercials get played but if I'm not mistaken those ad blocks (sections of Time designated as an ad time) are marked specifically so that local ads can be played in that time slot.

@kindlin

2 ай бұрын

@@Gennys The funny part is, the other ad will just literally play over the channel's ad, so it just random interrupts it halfway through, you get an ad, it finishes, and you go back to another halfway interrupted ad.

"So let's watch the commercial and see what we learn..." *cuts to youtube ad* Well played editor, ya never cease to impress me. 👏

Been mentioning avoiding smart TV's b/c ads, answer im getting is "why how what anyway". Its and uphill battle

I like to say, You should NEVER pay a company just so you can be their product. If you see ads, you're the product. If they sell your data, you're the product. Hulu makes you pay to watch, but then shows you ads. YOU are the product.

GDPR is only there to protect any consumers data. I work in Retail and have done so for the last 20 years. Many store chains I have been in had to remake all their membership lists and only include those who agreed again after GDPR was established. Any Retail company have to maintain the laws on a daily basis. Not having any consumer data laying around like phone numbers, addresses, old recipt. Even goods that have been returned we have to remove old delivery stickers. GDPR is a good thing.

@Drenwickification

2 ай бұрын

Maybe overall it’s good, but the dann cookies pop ups on every single website I ever visit has made browsing the web a lot more annoying as well.

@agamersinsanity

2 ай бұрын

@@Drenwickification I agree especially on your mobile phone when it eats the whole screen.

@LilOleTinyMe

2 ай бұрын

@@agamersinsanitythat's the websites fault and intention

@simedinson984

2 ай бұрын

And the dark patterns they use on them is not fun

@sofiajohansson8537

2 ай бұрын

@@Drenwickification I have a chrome add on called Cookie-Editor I never get asked about cookies again

Paid advertisement/sponsorships should 100% be illegal. Paying for a service to manipulate the public out of their money should be a federal offense.

Took a photo of a product I had never seen before to show a friend (hadn't sent it because I got distracted) but when I got home and opened up youtube I had 2 ads for it as if I had sent it/was talking about it. You can get ads from your camera roll.

When I get to a website and it doesn't let me view the content because of my ad blocker I get highly suspicious of that website and fearful for what they want to do with my information. It makes me highly leery of being on that website at all if they take those measures.

Time to stock on HDMI

@K05H

2 ай бұрын

It's not the cables it's the ROKU software.

@Moe0000

2 ай бұрын

@@K05H Yea, But how long until Other companies follow the same idea?

@R3_Live

2 ай бұрын

I think you missed the problem. The problem isn't about the cable. The problem is the software that can determine when you pause your content so it can serve you ads. It doesn't matter what HDMI cable you have as this issue would apply retroactively, even to your current cables.

@Moe0000

2 ай бұрын

@@R3_Live Oh, Then in glad i have a modded Google TV

You got me with the "I've altered the deal, pray that I don't alter it any further"

I don't mind ads, because sometimes that's how i know there's new product or services i need without searching on the internet. But forcing it on me is another case that's why i still prefer youtube since twich not allowing me to skip ads.

I think what Asmons talking about around 10:40 , is already existing. It’s called being grandfathered in. When you buy a service package, then that package changes in the future, your service isn’t affected, unless you change to a newer package then you can’t go back to your grandfathered package, because it doesn’t exist anymore. That’s why a lot of elderly people are against switching from their older tv services, because they have some grandfathered package and their perspective of it’s value is out of wack because they haven’t kept up with modern services, because they have this special “grandfathered” service. Some of them are getting basically scammed, paying insane amounts for tv services when they could just switch to KZread tv or directv stream and save like $40-$100 a month usually. It’s sad how they’re being taken advantage of, but money is money I suppose.

I pay for all the content on the internet by way of the subscription itself. If the media companies that provide the connection are not distributing the funds based on ratings or traffic, then it seems the system itself is flawed and that isn't my fault. If I am going to get ads on a service I'm paying for, then why am I paying for the service? They are treating our internet service like it's free air-wave television from the 20th century, and that's the problem. If I am interested in a product, I will seek it myself, otherwise it's just unwanted, time-wasting solicitation.

@konaqua122

2 ай бұрын

I assume that they would add a new tier to subscription. It's higher costs per month but no ads.

@kwando472

2 ай бұрын

You pay for access to the internet. But to get further access to servers such as KZread then you are now speaking to their servers. They need to keep up their server. So they need income in some way. So your take is wrong, still keep using adblockers because they're here and that's cool.

@Achonas

2 ай бұрын

I pay my taxes for roads. If the government isn't distributing the funds based on visits or traffic to businesses...

@anthonyhiscox

2 ай бұрын

@@kwando472 There is a fine line here between pushing companies away from these insane policies, and people feeling entitled to others labor and resources.

@freedustin

2 ай бұрын

@@kwando472 they have never turned a profit so by your logic they should have died out 10 years ago. But they haven't have they? So your take is wrong.

Back in the day TV ads were invented to let me go to bathroom.

@CivilizedWasteland

2 ай бұрын

and some channels didn't even have ads, like boomerang.

The last time I watched ads on youtube would be in 2018 ish... got about 6 ads in a row, all blaring loud and high resolution, while the actual video was buffering like crazy and super quiet (someone covers how and why the ads "sound" louder without being louder than the content, as per regulatory definitions). The few ads I have seen since, after installing Brave, are blocked after an update, usually a day later; about 7 times in the past 6 years I have used my phone and found youtube to have updated their ad system, and 3 of those times I waited over 12 hours before an update on the app, all being under 24... Louis Rossmann has several videos covering how people will start pushing back if they try and push more and more ads.