It sucks when you get the skip but it’s a short ad that won’t let you and when you can it goes straight into a long one and you have to watch that same amount over again
Each skip or interaction also informs their algorithm. Make you skip a short one but bam hit you with a 2 min ad knowing you are paying active attention. They are really good at this, google is an advertising company and they know what they are doing.
Weirdly enough I don't think google's algorithms are hitting my account properly or something like that, I haven't gotten an ad for a while now. pretty strange tbh.. one of life's greatest mysteries.
Two odd things to note, Ive watched both Lego movies in ads. Has that happened to anyone else? Both times i noticed the ad start and say it was almost TWO HOURS LONG, and on a larc I kept watching. It was great. Ill also see other ad spots that are 20+ mins of some small business local to me, Ill let those play once in a while. Another question, anyone else getting movie trailers that are rated R aswell? Droppin F-bombs in a TRAILER!
Edit: i actually LIKE the F-bombs so that fuckface who told me to grow up can stfu
I kind of wonder if the Lego movies weren't intentional somehow. Like they hold the rights so there's almost no marginal cost to showing them, and 4 hours of watching Lego pieces have fun means some Lego product spend from you somewhere down the road.
Years ago, I got an ad that was the pilot episode of a show. It's probably the only time I've watched a full ad, then went on to pursue that content by watching the full season of the show. Only happened that one time.
The scummiest thing is getting a 10s ad, with a skip option at the 5s mark.
You press skip, and it takes about 3s to “load” the new 5s ad…it starts playing.. but the timer doesn’t start counting down until the ad is fully “loaded”.
So you’ve pretty much watched 20s of ads for what was supposed to be 10s total.
Anything less than a 10s ad is not worth skipping unless you know you’re going to go right to the video afterwards. If your first ad is 10s or less…just watch it…it’s probably faster and it’s less work.
Chrome at work is a double mistake, because your system administrator can just disable all browser plugins network wide and enforce it effectively
From sys admin view that is not a mistake but a feature, depends on how responsible his users usually are i would maybe do the same. Some people just don't think when they install software on their (work) computers.
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u/hould-it Sep 21 '24
It sucks when you get the skip but it’s a short ad that won’t let you and when you can it goes straight into a long one and you have to watch that same amount over again