“ads are based on your activity” they say. I like biology and I am frequently engaging in biology related topics on the internet, yet they keep spamming me with gambling ads, israel army recruitment ads (yes these are a thing!), and occasionally the hot girl mobile games, all ads I literally did not ask for. Everything is thrown at me, most being harmful and completely unrelated to my interests, except biology.
Use Smartube if possible, but that’s only on android TV. Maybe someone knows alternatives for TV apps. I remember webos had some kind of hack, but I’m not sure if it works anymore. Smartube is better than paid YouTube TV which is sad.
Sanity check: are you sure you didn’t turn off ad personalization at some point and these are just the standard issue ads that get shown to most people?
I know this sounds crazy but I’m pretty sure those that go through the effort of blocking personalized ads are statistically higher to be consumers of anime thirst traps and gambling if ever interacting with them.
My accounts that have tracking enabled I get “normal” ads but if I have any kind of privacy on the device it defaults to enticing the lowest common denominator. Which makes sense from an engagement standpoint.
“ads are based on your activity” they say. I like biology and I am frequently engaging in biology related topics on the internet, yet they keep spamming me with gambling ads, israel army recruitment ads (yes these are a thing!), and occasionally the hot girl mobile games, all ads I literally did not ask for. Everything is thrown at me, most being harmful and completely unrelated to my interests, except biology.
Use adnauseam, sponsorblock on Firefox.
I only watch YouTube on my TV and rarely on my phone and never on my computer.
Use Smartube if possible, but that’s only on android TV. Maybe someone knows alternatives for TV apps. I remember webos had some kind of hack, but I’m not sure if it works anymore. Smartube is better than paid YouTube TV which is sad.
Yea, I don’t think fire TV has much for that.
Fire TV is android
How to install Smartube on firetv
Use the official smarttube site
Why are you not using adblock?
Sanity check: are you sure you didn’t turn off ad personalization at some point and these are just the standard issue ads that get shown to most people?
I know this sounds crazy but I’m pretty sure those that go through the effort of blocking personalized ads are statistically higher to be consumers of anime thirst traps and gambling if ever interacting with them.
My accounts that have tracking enabled I get “normal” ads but if I have any kind of privacy on the device it defaults to enticing the lowest common denominator. Which makes sense from an engagement standpoint.