[gofreddygo]

Super agree. Its either "I'm bored out of my wits" or "i'm exhausted with my kids"

Folks with more time and energy on their hands have managed spend it all on a broad variety of rabbit holes.

Folks with kids have managed to wither whatever minutes were left away, looking at the other group's reports on their rabbit hole expeditions

Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

[jcelerier]

I don't have kids and I don't think I've gotten bored once - I had the time to watch a whopping two TV shows this year.

[minot]

Early summer was strange. I finished watching seasons one through four of the expanse on Amazon.com

Kept getting side tracked because it takes a dystopian science fiction set hundreds of years in the future to discuss basic income and climate change in television.

[ikornaselur]

I'm honestly struggling with finding more time to do stuff and I don't have any kids.

I have loads of side projects I want to work on, loads of games I want to play, books I want to read, movies and tv shows I want to watch and I have a relationship takes up a lot of my time.

I was doing Adventure of Code this year and I haven't managed to finish the last 7 days because I haven't had time for it yet.

Though I strongly believe that if I was single, it would be a very different story and I'd be very bored and restless with all this time. Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference.

[colordrops]

> Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

I'm finding that I'm not using youtube that much anymore. It wasn't really a conscious decision - the annoyance pushed away my reptilian brain.

[read_if_gay_]

I barely use it on my phone anymore and on my desktop I installed an adblocker again (before I only used uMatrix).

But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.

[akiselev]

> But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.

Or a growing towards a majority and Google is in a deathspiral trying to meet quarterly growth targets by extracting more attention from an audience that is catching on faster than it is growing in size.

One can hope.

[jimktrains2]

I have ublock for Firefox on android and it works as expected.

[DanBC]

> together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

Just in case there's anyone from Google reading this: I'm tolerant of ads. I'd like the option to "skip the first ad" but watch the second. Or just put the short ad first.

Sometimes I don't mind watching a 15 second ad, but I really don't want to watch a 4 minute ad.

[ryanianian]

This is especially true if I'm not even sure I want to watch the video. If I follow a link to a random youtube video there's a 50/50 chance I'll stop watching after 10 seconds of content. Having to watch even 5 seconds of ads before that makes me avoid following links in the first place.

[op03]

Thats only if you believe raising kids isn't a rabbit hole expedition.

Quite a few people are just too confused, clueless and unconscious of what expeditions they are on.