[Info-vax] The Student System

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-11-04, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <ui2rrr$2pmp3$2 at dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>On 2023-11-02, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't recall seeing any intrusive adverts on YouTube
>>
>>There are addons you can add to your own systems that you cannot add
>>to work systems. I assume you are using one of those (unless you are
>>paying for YT).
>
> Google maintains a profile of identifiable unique users.  It includes
> location information most of the time, and any accounts they can associate
> with it.  This profile is used to deliver ads to you that Youtube thinks
> are relevant, and in this time of year in the US it includes a lot of
> targetted political ads.
>
> This also determines the volume of ads you get.  If I watch a video on
> one side of Virginia, I will get far fewer ads than someone watching
> the same video on the other (richer) side of the state.
>
> No two people get the same experience.

I watch Youtube anonymously in private browsing mode, so there's no
browsing history for it to work with.

It's just the sheer quantity and the _same_ advert repeating multiple
times that is so annoying. Here is an example, found at random by searching
for North Yorkshire Moors walking videos on Google UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5Ov-LRXXo

It's less than 10 minutes, but I still got the same immune support
medicine advert several times (followed by a random advert) while
clicking at several points in the video. :-(

I then picked another one from the results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj8gX8CiA9I

and got the _same_ bloody advert several times again for a video
under 15 minutes!!! I know I will now be unlikely to buy that product
if I ever need something like that in the future. :-)

(BTW, the video subject was picked to be inoffensive to _everyone_ :-))

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.