As Amazon becomes the latest platform to push an ad-supported tier, TV writers greet this retro model with frustration and, in some cases, disdain: āI thought 'Nine Perfect Strangers' with commercials was horrible,ā says David E. Kelley of his Hulu show with breaks.
What I want to know is how much money could insurance companies (cough, Liberty Mutual, cough) POSSIBLY be saving people when they are buying ads on every video on Youtube.
I always wondered what if someone started an insurance business that didnāt spend billions on advertisements, it just offered genuinely lower rates. When you sign up you have to sign something promising youāll tell 2 other people.
āWe canāt lower prices! Look at how much we have to spend!!ā
Points at billions in ad slots being watched by mostly AI now
There are plenty of insurance companies that are like this. Theyāre significantly cheaper than the nationally advertised insurance options.
The Market Basket of insurance companies - solid, quality products, at a reasonable price, because they simply donāt do any marketing.
Massachusetts (funny enough also where MB is popular) used to have only small car insurance companies, I think it had something to do with no-fault or something. But they opened up to the Geicos and co. A decade or so ago.
Thatās what youāre seeing. Not what Iām seeing. Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted ads.
I only get Doctor Drew telling me stuff is a metabolism killer.
You guys watch ads on YouTube? When YT gets the better of UblockO for a couple days, I just open the YT homepage, see which of the regular channels I check out have new videos or I look through my recommended and then I open piped or yewtu.be. Fuck YT. I refuse to watch ads. When I open a YT link through lemmy, Iāll close the window immediately if an ad starts playing. Fuck these companies.
I went over a month with zero issues using UBO on YouTube. Coincidentally today for some reason the site started breaking so I updated the quick fixes filter list and that solved it.
I have ad blocker at the router level, but I often toggle it off when it interrupts marketing experiences that I need to see for work.
May I ask what you are using for a blocker?
I get douche bros peddling instant meal powder crap. Which I have never, ever, looked for or researched, but my wifeās shopping habits tend to dictate my ads, even though weāre on completely different devices.
Yeah, if youāre going through the same router, itās going to be one IP. My guess is that I get the metabolism stuff because of my spouse.
Thatās a feature. When you start to get diaper ads itās time for some news.
I mostly get ads for stuff Iāve researched online; anything I buy for the house, kitchen, or simply tools for business, I make sure is āBuy It For Lifeā quality
Targeted ads are hilarious. Yes, Google, I did. I did just buy a pair of Knipex Cobra pipe grips. That will be the last time ever I buy them, and they will still be hanging around a secondhand shop 150 years after Iāve turned to fuckin dust. The advert for Shungong Best Grip is a fuckin waste of electrons
Weird then that I donāt need insurance and am not looking for insuranceā¦
And Iām super skinny and donāt need to speed up my metabolism. Itās not perfect, but we both sit in a demographic cohort that seems to really buy what theyāre pushing to us.
Iām always getting those crappy State Farm ads with celebrities like Ludacris, who always look slightly embarrassed to be appearing in the ads
And equally that I have had LM for decades and thatās all I see ads for ā¦ yeah, real effective targeted advertising.
Lol, I get eavestrough filters and fat guy t-shirts. They can tell Iām an old fucker but not that Iām skinny as hell
Theyād lose money. Advertising works - thatās why companies are doing it.
Thereās a great NPR podcast about this.
The Gecko effect.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1102496094