It’s times like these that online advertisements need to get creative to get ahead in this never ending adblocking arms race, just like the very subtle advertisement in the car chase scene in the Academy Award nominated film, “Barbie”, now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.
I know right? The other day I was drinking a coke and wondering about side effects of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, and it occurred to me that advertising could be a lot more creative and subtle.
But there is something to be said about superliminal messaging as well.
Instead of trying to subtly influence people to watch your movie, why not tell them directly to watch your movie instead?
Forget telling you, they should just start playing the movie and bill you
Rick Astley has been doing this for years!
Inside, we both know what’s been going on We know the game and we’re gonna play it.
Sneaky upvote!
No one can beat Ublock Origin
blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker
(and when things go bad…)
Ad! Ad!! Oh, it’s an ad. :(
Blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker …
Oh Great Cthulhu, we’re old.
Mushroom mushroom
Ad ad oooohhhhh it’s an ad.
Ad blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker
A møøse ønce bit my sister
Pøør sister!
Blocker & Blocker
2 Blocker 2 Blocked
Blocker Tokyo Drift
…
Blocker
Blockers
Blocker 3
Blocker Resurrection
Blocker vs Inline
Blocker vs Inline: Requiem
Revanced
Blocker: Covenant
Blocker: RomulusThe new timeline reboot:
- Blocker: The beginning
- The Blocker Returns
- The Dark Blocker
- Blocker Homecoming
- Rise of the Blockers
- Dawn of the Blockers
- War of the Blockers
- Kingdom of the Blockers
And to bring it full circle:
- Planet of the Blockers
I truly hope the new planet of the apes franchise is building to an actual planet of the apes remake. Time traveling astronauts and shattered statue of liberty. I feel like they’re already sowing the seeds for human mutants living underground worshipping an unexploded atomic bomb. Man those movies were weird.
Block of the Bockers; Return of the Blockings
BlocX
The Final Blocker
The Final Blocker 2: Electric Boogaloo
God I love the web platform!
This just in: Google suddently discontinues support for popular and profitable ad blocker blocker blocker blocker, because literally all they know how to do is kill things that work.
YouTube can definitely afford a war ship and pay people to shoot…we may have enough people to operate a death star for free but can we afford one ?
The image doesn’t quite work because youtube needs a MASSIVE solution that works, scales, doesn’t fuck up their infrastructure and on and on and on.
Meanwhile on the user front, all your doing essentially is just skipping parts of a video, that will always be infinitely cheaper easier to do. Challenging for sure, but the solution can be small.
Even something as stupid as delaying your video start by 1 min, pre buffering then skipping ads. It’s brute force and barbaric but the point is that Google can’t do shit against that.
My ultimate vision is AI that preloads videos you want and detects ads / sponsor segments and just skips them / cuts them out on your device.
Another way to think about it… YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it’s an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.
as a firefox user i cant give up and just installed freetube, exported everything from yt. its great
So the final step is the internet blows up?
Is Google Chrome fighting uBlock country-specific? I use Chrome on Win 10 with uBlock and haven’t seen a YouTube ad outside of the mobile app in ages. For me, uBlock never stopped working in Chrome and I watch YouTube videos every 1-2 days.
What of I told you there is an easier way of blocking ads: noscript.
I guess you haven’t heard they’re experimenting with injecting ads right into the videos on the server. Just turning off scripts won’t do anything for that.
Depending on your country, these ads still need to be marked clearly as such. And for accessibility reasons, that mark will always be machine readable.
So blockers will be fine.
Sponsor block gives me a nice list of options to do in that case: skip automatically, show a skip button or ignore. All based on what type of interruption there is.
Yeah I’ve seen it on twitch. We are joeover.
The great arms race for your attention
uBlock and YouTube got trace busters for their trace busters.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers scenes from this terrible movie. This was the first thing that came to mind.
