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by Delameko 2743 days ago
The problem with ads for me (other than the bloat and the privacy invasion) is that the tracking is just shit.

Whenever I'm signed in on Youtube I get non-stop ads for Squarespace (due to being a web dev I imagine). No matter how many times I mark the ads as irrelevant, they keep showing them. I've seen Squarespace ads hundreds of times, wasting my time, and Squarespace's ad spend.

When I open Youtube in a private browser and go to a gaming channel, I get ads for games. The ads are actually interesting, and I discovered three games this week that I hadn't heard of.

I would rather Youtube showed gaming ads on gaming channels, instead of all this tracking nonsense.