so last year it was the chair workout. odd series of ads, but whatever….
This year it’s the Tai Chi walking ads that come up all the time, which are creepy as fuck. I’ve gotten the “teenage girl interviewing 50’ish shirtless man (obviously on TRT or something similar) how her dad can get 6 pack abs” a number of times, and it’s just giving me serious ick vibes.
I am definitely getting hit hard by the Asian Mr. Clean TaiChi guy ads recently. It’s a crazy. Someone must be paying youtube a lot of $$ to push his content.
I play a couple of games on my phone and suffered through the chair work out ads and now get the Tai Chi ones all the time.
A few times on Youtube I’ve had adds pop up that are ■■■■ related, one time explicitly so. Pretty sure they weren’t supposed to be there, but not sure?
A good ad blocker goes a long way.
Awhile ago, I took a break during a run to watch a group doing Tai Chi in the park (is it done anywhere else?). Guy on the bench said he used to be a Tai Chi Champion. I thought he was kidding and laughed. But he may have been serious. At the time, I didn’t think competition was such a thing.
My mom got into Tai Chi after retirement. She claims to be undefeated in push hands competition. It was her dojo’s favorite party trick to have some young hot shot get humiliated by a fat old lady. Push hands is the most combative form of competition in Tai Chi. Closer to Sumo Wrestling than it is to Taekwondo or other violent forms.
uBlock origin. Google wont allow it in Chrome (duh) so going to need to use Firefox or (lol) Edge.
I shouldn’t have said pop-up, I can’t remember the last time I had an actual pop up ad. I meant the ads that Youtube runs with the videos.
Ad blockers get rid of those. The only ones I see are where the content creator integrates an ad as part of their video. At least those ones are easy enough to skip past.
I avoid ad-blockers because I see that as equivalent to stealing cable or pirating movies. Ads are how those websites and their content creators get paid. I make an exception when ads break websites. That happens alot on mobile Chrome, but fortunately not with this site.
I wish there was a way to selectively enable ads. if I’m hate-watching content from someone whom I despise, I don’t want them to profit….
If that’s your stance and you want content creators to get paid, but you still find these ads to be a problem, then pay for Youtube Premium.
If you’re going the adblocker route, you can do one click on the toolbar to toggle it on or off - if you’re using a desktop browser.
Or just contribute directly to the creator via patreon, their affiliate links, or any other number of ways they have set up to generate revenue.
The advantage to Youtube Premium is that it will get rid of ads on platforms where you can’t run an adblocker - like your Roku / AppleTV / whatever.
Yup, these are creepy. Occasionaly, I get something about a shirtless personal trainer who looks like he is promoting a ■■■■ site.
Man, you guys see some screwed up shit!
I see ads from Automation Direct and Galvo. That’s about it.
I don’t expect anyone else except @integrator to understand the who or the what those ads are from/for.
With all due respect, I think this is not a constructive approach. In a normal world, absolutely. But this is not a normal world.
The ads that social media companies feed you are the scammiest ones possible, and the more scammy the ads are, the more the platform makes money.
You would not believe how deep the rabbit hole goes. I often advise new small business entrepreneurs about how this works. Social media platforms are the only place where a small business can spend advertising dollars and end up worse off than a comparable small businesses that spends zero social media advertising dollars.
Don’t believe me? Here is an example from a few years back on fb where this happens. Still happening today on many, many social media platforms. And guess what? Facebook is completely in on the scam, and they will NEVER do anything to stop it. Not while they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Youtube, Google search, and so many others, they all do similar things. Everyone ends up a slave to unknown and constantly-changing secret algorithms that promise the moon, but instead we get the total enshitification of the internet.
Hahaha! We order from Galco some, AD only in an emergency 
You must have big dollar clients!