Ads all over the place
I do get why there are ads everywhere... But now its getting out of hand where browsers cannot load pages properly because of all the ads..
And what is even more frustrating is that the ads loads much faster than the actual content you are there for, as seen on YouTube e.g where the ad is running in crisp nice HD while the content you want to watch is only loading in 480p.
I have over the past week been forced to read my news etc on an unfiltered connection, and boy do I tell you, its nasty.
With all that being said, there is also the tracking that is happening on unfiltered connections, which I find even more disturbing.
It is a known fact that tracking is happening, but to the extent it's happening is ludachris and should be stopped.
It feels like it infringes on the right to privacy, in EU and Europe, we have laws that supposedly protect us, but I do not know how effective this are in the grand scheme of things.
When seeing this I fear for the future where we will not be able to escape ads and commercials, it will become more and more prevalent in our peripheral vision to finally creep into the forefront of our viewing angles.
We have in many movies seen the dystopian future where commercials are at the center of everything, and personally I really do not want to see something like that happening.
Myself, I am the kind of consumer that is less likely to buy your product if I am spammed ads or commercials about it.
What I do recognize is the need to spread some form of awareness of your product, but I am not sure if Google, Meta, IG etc is the correct platform for a more subdued and clean form of advertising.
What I found as a rather nice surprise was, my YouTube Premium lapsed (we have it to shelter our child from a majority of ads) and most of the channels that I follow or subscribe to, do not have ads pushed on their content.
Do not get me wrong, I feel that creators should earn off of their creations, but sitting through YouTube ads and then ads for sponsors that are baked into the video... is a bit much.
For me it comes down to picking your poison, and if you double dip, I will unsubscribe or simply not watch any of your content.
The above does not mean I do not appreciate your content or you as a creator, I just feel that its a bit much to go for such obvious cash-grabs when in the end it hurts your following and content.
We all need to make money from something and I want to support people doing this as much as possible, but it is becoming a chore with all what I would consider pollution happening. I view it the same way I view light pollution or auditory pollution where its there, but should not be.
And to my point earlier, it really rubs the wrong way when the ads loads at a crisp and clean 1080p while the content does not load past 720p "for the sake of conserving bandwidth"... I mean... what the hell?
The same sentiment goes for paid streaming services, if I have to resort to piracy to get 4K resolution of the same content that will only stream in 1080p from legal source, we are looking at a much bigger problem which the industry itself creates.
The consumers are willing to pay and ensure to use legal sources, just dont make it hard for consumers.
Netflix was on a good roll there for a while until everyone else thought they would come with their own streaming service, and that in turn makes it harder to reach consumers are as you again need to run ads etc for content you provide.
My biggest gripe in this world is that we have allowed ads and non-relevant content to take the prime spot while the content we actually want/need is on the backburner.
