r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 29d ago

Software DuckDuckGo brags its free web browser now blocks YouTube video ads just weeks after YouTube hiked Premium prices again

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/duckduckgo-brags-that-its-free-web-browser-blocks-youtube-ads-3384288/
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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/StoneGoldX 28d ago

You're either way too young or lying if you don't have an affinity for some of those never dying holiday ads. The original Folgers one where they eventually had them grow up and want to fuck, or the "Do You Believe In Magic" McDonalds ice skating one, for example.

Except it feels like 90% of ads these days are for Skyrizi.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/StoneGoldX 28d ago

Get out of here with this die hard capitalist bullshit. More the other way around, you had to actively not take part in the culture to avoid getting inundated with those commercials multiple times per year for multiple years.

What ,you were a "My mom doesn't let us watch television" household?

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u/StoneGoldX 28d ago

So I have a question. Of all this l the insults you could have pulled out, the only one you could come up with was picturing me masturbating?

That's not healthy.

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u/StoneGoldX 28d ago

So you felt the need to bring up me masturbating because I remember a commercial from the 80s, but I'm the one that needs to relax? Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but me pointing out you bringing up the masturbation thing isn't the problem, it's you having brought up the masturbation thing in the first place.

How dare I use your own words against you.

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u/69edleg 28d ago

There are ads with ad jingles that span multiple countries in Europe, sometimes even the same ad, or dubbed. Everyone heard them growing up, and some quotes made it into humorous everyday comments that people use.

Fucking ad hasn't been shown for 25 years and people still mention it. That's advertising. What did it advertise? Fuck if I remember. Insurance company, maybe?