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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

YouTube ads are almost entirely bought by venture capital firms. They see the YouTube audience as immature and not very savvy, but that audience thinks of itself as mature and very savvy. This gives VC a pretty wide gap to shoot through for targeted advertising.

As a result you get products and services a step better than scams, and actual scams being advertised. The fact that these things aren't really going away until Coffeezilla does a takedown kind of proves the VC firms right in their assessment too.

A good rule of thumb, if it's being advertised on YouTube/twitch/tiktok, whatever short form media, it's probably bad. Or, exorbitantly priced. (I'm looking at YOU, Displate)

A rare exception is Nebula. Should be kinda obvious why.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 10 points 3 months ago

Because more often than not, something that is advertised too much is usually a bad product. Good products speak for themselves, are spread by word-of-mouth, or at least require only minimal advertising.

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you keep ads on youtube?

[–] Gentryfried@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not on PC, but on my tablet I just use the youtube app and i haven't been bothered to look into adblocks on the app. You have to use browser to adblock, right?

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 3 months ago

You have 3 options:

  • use a browser with adblock like uBlock Origin
  • use another youtube app like NewPipe, Tubular (NewPipe with SponsorBlock)…
  • modify the official youtube app using ReVanced
[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Apps that run entirely on ads will probably not make enough money so premium or freemium is where they go. If they have no ads in their app, they probably also have no money to buy ads on YouTube.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They could charge a fair price for the app and forgo the ads all together.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

Isn't that a premium model then?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What is a fair price?