The Adpocalypse Situation

Let me be honest here, how many of you actually like ads showing up on the internet? No one? Good, because the way the ads work on the internet is getting really, really bad. I'm talking unusable levels here. This is just annoying at this point.

Now hold on, you may be wondering: "but companies need to make money!", I know companies need to make money to survive, but putting ads in front of everything is not the solution to this. Yes I'm looking at you websites that spam ads in front of everyone and your anti-adblock policies, you will shy away more people than get them to watch ads. That's just how it is.

Also, there is a trend where anything you try to force people to do something, they do the opposite of that, that's just how it is. Just telling people to turn off their adblocks will encourge MORE people to turn on adblock. I am not kidding, just try it for yourself.

At this point, it should be a basic human right to use an adblocker, heck even the FBI recommends adblockers, since there are ads being pushed that are actually malicious and could render your computer useless. I am not kidding, look through sites and tell me if you see a suspicious ad somewhere. Don't see it? You will eventually.

Also it should be illegal to play 30-60 second ads on a video every 2-3 seconds of a video. You can literally see this happen in this video, that's just how bad the decisions are when companies are 'trying' to make more money.

It's like a tom and jerry scene where they are trying to find every penny and nickle possible to survive. That's not how business should work. What you should actually do is:

1. Sell high quality products that gets more people interested in it (DON'T make free products paid, actually make new features that work better for the premium module, but also simultaneously making new free features as well)

2. Show less ads. Ads don't give off as much cash as selling real products, so make the overall experience better or you can scare off more people with bloated ads.

3. Remove anti-adblock scripts; people will pirate no matter what, so don't even try to stop them. In many cases it'll encourage even more people to buy your products since they'll see pirates liking the products and they'll legitimately buy your products, so it's a win win.

4. Ads should show up only when a break is really necessary. After an intense scene on a video, an ad should play there to give viewers some time to breath before getting back into action. Also, ads also should only play in increments of 15-20 mins for a 1-4 hour video, 5-10 mins for a 20-60 min video, 30-60 mins for a 5-12 hour video, and only twice for anything shorter than 20 min videos. Ads should never appear for music videos, it's not a very fitting place to put ads there

5. Delete ads that violate terms of service (TOS). Normal videos are normally deleted if they violate TOS, but for some stupid reason ads can ignore TOS?! Let me be clear here, should I really be allowed to make a p**n ad or otherwise offensive ad that shows up in underages' eyes and get away with it? NOOO!!!!! So I should get community guideline striked for that. We should have the same 3 strike system from YouTube to here; if I get 3 strikes I am gone for good. That's how ad policies should work. Same can be said for scam ads.

So basically, no one can stop me from using ublock until all of these issues get resolved, not one, not two, all five of them. Same can be said for everyone that uses adblocks.

Update 8/7/2024: So apparently now Google is hustling to disable manifest v2 extensions, which includes most adblockers including ublock origin, and to be honest this is a stupid decision because:

1. It turns off tools that make the internet more usable

2. More scams can happen than it really should

3. This doesn't even give extension developers enough time to make any changes to their extensions

4. This probably will affect many chromium browsers including MS edge and Brave

To people reading this: Good job making the internet more unusable! Now you'll make it 10 times more likely to get infected by malicous ads that you refuse to remove!

*Sigh* why can't companies just do what customers want, even if it's the bare minimum?