Over the course of the COVID pandemic, and the ensuing race riots, I've continued monitoring the media coming out of both the alt left and the alt right. The result is that I now have several thousand words written about how much I hate the "woke" left. While I try to hammer that into something readable, here's a post on something else entirely.
One of the things I've been working on is an unofficial app for watching YouTube videos (amongst other things). As part of that process, I've been using YouTube without ad-block, for the first time in a long time. Frankly, I've been shocked at the quality of the advertising I've been seeing. Google is the biggest advertising platform on the face of the planet, and the material they've been throwing at me is on the level of what I would expect to see on a fucking bittorrent site.
Endless commercials for shonky get-rich-quick schemes, free-to-play/pay-to-win browser games, and dating sites promising me that there are dozens of single, middle-aged women, living in my area, who can't wait to hook up with me (call me skeptical). I've even been getting ads for an Asians-only dating site for some reason. It makes me wonder what my Google advertising profile actually looks like - single, middle-aged, Korean man, with money to invest, and a weakness for shitty video games.
Oh, and unruly pubic hair, apparently. The one type of ad I've been getting more than any other, is for pubic-hair removal. Creams, gadgets, services. I didn't even realise there were so many options available.
*sigh* In any case, my overall take-away from this experience is … keep using fucking ad-block. Sites like YouTube are much, much, MUCH shittier without them.
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I even hate using reputable sites like The Age without an ad blocker. Every time I open it up at work I wonder how people can stand looking at it. The website is so carefully laid out and well-produced, then there's a shitty google ad right in the middle of an article and lots around the edges. And don't even get me started on the Windows idea of a landing page. Erk.
I got shat off with the woke left a while ago because I got fed up with sanctimonious vegans. Bacon tastes good. Cheese is a gift from god. I am not going to stop with those things. Fuck right off making me feel bad for eating things that genetically it is very hard to replace in your diet. Fuck off.
Last time I looked at a news site without an ad-blocker, I was met with a ring of video ads, pegging the CPU to 100%, and was expected to read the article by peering through a little gap in the middle. Ridiculous.
Fuck me, now YouTube is bombarding me with ads for fake supplements. I'm almost tempted to keep the ad-block off, just to see how pathetic this gets.
Not 100% sure, but I think I just watched an ad for diet pills that was targeted at fat lesbians.
Hahaha.
Don't they know you are a reformed fatty? ;)
Speaking of reformed fatties, there's a girl, I would guess mid 20s, who works at my local supermarket. I hadn't seen her since before COVID. She used to be HUGE. When I saw her the other day, she looked like a professional athlete. Not just slim, but fit and muscular. Astonishing for a six month turnaround. In fact, the only reason I recognised her was because of her frizzy hair, pointy nose, and high-pitched "helium" voice, which hadn't changed.
I wrestled with whether or not to congratulate her on the transformation, but in the end, I decided it would have been inappropriate. Still, wonders never cease.
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