Ad fatigue is mostly because we're seeing 40 seconds of unskippable ads even for 60 second video on YouTube, an ad between every two real Facebook posts, and news/recipes/DIY guides where every sentence is its own paragraph and there's an ad in the gap plus another on the sidebar that doesn't scroll with the content.
I see loads and loads of ad vatiants from a "we can save you money on your rent" company, and I hate all of them.
I see loads of AI generated content including ads, and only the curated stuff (not the fire-and-forget automated stuff) is worth attending to: if I hear a synthetic voice or see Lovecraftian geometry or Cronenberg biology, whatever's being sold is necessarily being sold by a company with low standards, and why would I want to buy from a company with low standards?
But such arguments get ignored by people who make money selling ad slots on their content, so I'm sure you'll do well anyway even as those same content providers complain about ever more ad blockers or even people giving up on the web because of ad-blocker-blockers.
rkomorn•5mo ago
And content is, more and more, made to make room for more ads.
The amount of meaningless or repetitive paragraphs on many "articles" that give nothing to the reader but generate longer presence, more scroll, and ad space for the site is exasperating.
viraptor•5mo ago
It's interesting, but have you considered doing something positive or at least neutral for the society instead?
ben_w•5mo ago
I see loads and loads of ad vatiants from a "we can save you money on your rent" company, and I hate all of them.
I see loads of AI generated content including ads, and only the curated stuff (not the fire-and-forget automated stuff) is worth attending to: if I hear a synthetic voice or see Lovecraftian geometry or Cronenberg biology, whatever's being sold is necessarily being sold by a company with low standards, and why would I want to buy from a company with low standards?
But such arguments get ignored by people who make money selling ad slots on their content, so I'm sure you'll do well anyway even as those same content providers complain about ever more ad blockers or even people giving up on the web because of ad-blocker-blockers.
rkomorn•5mo ago
The amount of meaningless or repetitive paragraphs on many "articles" that give nothing to the reader but generate longer presence, more scroll, and ad space for the site is exasperating.