A Pre-History of Slashdot

Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by mrmyers on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:47PM (#15414092)

I occasionally hear people complaining about ads on youtube, but I have never seen a youtube ad aside from when random people try to show me a video on their computer. Do people just not use adblock+ any more?

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by bdamm on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:14PM (#15417934)

You can't avoid the ads if they are presented as videos.

It's actually a cultural phenomenon of people making a living by buying toys and making you tube videos about them. You tube then pipes children's eyeballs to these videos.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by unixhero on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:47AM (#15414695)

Sure, but not on my phone and on my Samsung 65" smart tv.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by mrmyers on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:44AM (#15414878)

Ah. Yea, I use firefox for android for mostly that reason.

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