Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
I'm starting to find ads even more irritating lately.
What's up with sites that take work funded by the public and putting ads over it? One site I looked at wouldn't even load a NASA video with an ad-blocker on, because of the pre-roll ad.
Or, what about when you watch a trailer for a movie, which itself is an ad, really, but first you have to watch another ad. What's up with that?
This is pretty amazing! People are taking my WordPress plugin that lets you warn site visitors if they don't have an ad-blocking browser plugin installed, and making versions of the project for non-WordPress sites.
2/ YouTube's been experimenting with ads that play while your video is paused
They won't be happy until they make ad money off of breathing.
Over the last few months they have increased ads so much, that my usage of YouTube is significantly less. It's too annoying. I had a 30 second no-skip ad for 7 second clip the other day. I already didn't use it as much as others.
Hopefully more fediverse platforms expand content.
WTF is wrong with Toyota making #wankpanzers? i thought they were supposed to be the company of small and efficient vehicles. even their trucks were supposed to be compact and efficient. that Tacoma thing is horrid.
If Google is going to be aggressively fighting against ad blocking, they should be held to a far higher, potentially legal, standard for ensuring safe advertisements.
Because one of the really important reasons for using ad blocking is safety from scams and malware. And Google owns THE largest ad network, and it serves malicious ads every day.
Windows 10 has started showing me adverts for Microsoft products every month or so. I do not want any distractions while I'm working. How do I stop this?