I know there is usually a “target demographic” that is profiled for what kind of products that they may buy. I was listening to an electro swing mix online and I kept hearing ads for different kinds of soaps, and all I could think of is “damn, a lot of people must clean while listening to this.

  • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    All it takes is watching a few home improvement videos on YT to start the idiot ads rolling: bots reading screen text a la TikTok that boil down to “Doctors HATE this one trick!” nonsense. I’m never sure if the knowledge gained from the video is worth the brain cells lost to the ad.

  • dewritoninja@pawb.social
    143·
    1 year ago

    Im an atheist pansexual, for a while youtube was bombarding me with Christian and Muslim ads no matter what I was watching. Un-installed the app and now I only use it on Firefox + ublock origin

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I recall noticing back when “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was on the air, that there were one hell of a lot of ads for contact lenses during that show.

    • Haus@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’m watching a reaction channel going through Buffy/Angel episodes now, and keep getting hard-right propaganda ads. I don’t get it.

      • fubo@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        If it’s anti-LGBT stuff, that may be because major ad systems e.g. Google/YouTube don’t treat LGBT as a demographic but rather a topic of interest … and the far right are interested.

    • loopy@lemm.eeOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Homework actually 😅. After a couple of hours, they all start to sound like the cantina song on Star Wars

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I only see ads when watching YT on my TV; and even when I go outside my normal viewing, the ads remain the same.

    The only thing my viewing content has changed in terms of ads is that once I actually found some good furry stuff on YT, I started also getting ads for FurryMate.com. And those are pretty weird. Other than that it’s like the same 4 products and whatever the latest movie trailers are.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    Dropped cable and OTA TV a long time ago. Only subscribe to streaming services that have a no-ads option. So nice to not have to sit through that.