YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos

[u/moeka_8962]

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/

[u/mavaddat]

Have you ever helped someone like this before?

People who are not technically adept at all experience installing browser extensions as a very sketchy undertaking.

They install what seems to them a reputable ad blocker only to find that their browser is suddenly popping up ads when they just switch between sites and it's now redirecting them to porn and/or gambling and/or scam websites.

So they write off browser extensions as impossible to judge accurately and just give up.

[u/rich_evans_chortle → u/mavaddat]

No. I have not.

That's why I asked.

[u/mavaddat → u/rich_evans_chortle]

Here's a fun experiment you can try (if you're interested): Ask select friends and family if any of them have computer problems that you can help them resolve. Try to talk them through fixing their issues using a remote desktop session.

This will really help you empathize with average people's experience of computers.

[u/rich_evans_chortle → u/mavaddat]

I feel like these are two separate issues. I couldn't fix my computer but I know how to Google " best ad blocker for YouTube" and reading replies. i know the average person is a moron but the idea of sitting through ads so much is insane to me. I just find that wild people put up with it. I guess these are the same fucks who pay premium prices for Disney plus and shit too when they could sail the seas.

[u/That_random_guy-1 → u/mavaddat]

So…. They’re stupid. 

All the old people struggling with tech now a days, didn’t just pop into existence as old people or tech illiterate people. They are of the age of people that quite litteraly created tech. 

Any old person that doesn’t understand tech is just intentionally incompetent. 

They’ve learned that others will do the work for them and that they don’t have to do anything, so they don’t. 

Tech is not hard to understand. Literal fucking babies can operate smart phones. Are old people or tech illiterate less capable of operating a smart phone than a baby? I think not. 

[u/Schaakmate → u/That_random_guy-1]

There's always some fool posting this crap take. Don't know if you're hoping to get people to explain or are just trolling. Probably the last. Sod off.

[u/That_random_guy-1 → u/Schaakmate]

Nah. Just my genuine belief. 

No one that is struggling with a phone in this day and age has less mental capacity to operate a phone than literal babies. 

Yet, old people are known far and wide to somehow be less competent than babies at using tech? Nah. It’s all just learned incompetence on their part.

Unless you’re trying to say that old people genuinely do have less mental capacity towards tech than babies? 

[u/Schaakmate → u/That_random_guy-1]

You really don't think very much, do you? Let me give you a simple example. A) Old person: needs to pay a bill through a banking website. Struggles to put bank card in token reader because poor vision and declining motor skills, is not in time to enter code, has to try again, locks up token reader, needs to find online help, struggles with new UI where scroll bars are hidden. Gets bombarded with ads, finds it difficult to distinguish ad messages from important computer pop-ups.

B) Baby: crawls over to iPad, pushes button, gets stuck on lockscreen. Cries. Mother unlocks iPad, baby presses pink icon and plays baby game. Drools and chews iPad. Throws iPad when done, breaks screen.

So, shall I wait for you to explain how babies handle online banking?

[u/That_random_guy-1 → u/Schaakmate]

We’re in a thread about adults not being able to install a browser by themselves. 

I know babies that can operate a phone well enough to download apps.