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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by southwesterly on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:31AM (#36536776)
On a long enough timeline every company becomes and ads company.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by timthelion on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:38AM (#36536937)
Are the oil companies ads companies?
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by Verdex on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:44AM (#36537040)
Maybe? Every gas pump I've gone to in the past half decade has had a TV playing ads at me. So at least part of the oil company ecosystem has an ad component.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by marssaxman on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:35PM (#36538014)
I recently moved back to a city where I rarely have to drive, which is nice, but I was driving a lot last year, and "do the pumps have those godawful TV ads or not" became my #1 criterion when deciding where to buy gas. What an unbearable racket!
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by causality0 on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:47AM (#36537103)
If lobbying governments to ignore the world slowly boiling to death is ads, then yes.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by mrguyorama on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:45PM (#36541100)
Do you happen to know anybody who denies climate change? Because their talking points came from an oil company.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by nness on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:50AM (#36537143)
It's like "Carcinisation" for tech companies.
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