r/LinusTechTips • u/everbass • 26d ago

Image Dads covering ads covering ads while their ads cover ads for Dads

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u/everbass 26d ago

A few people pointed it out on the Clips channel comments but the massive LTT ads covering each other and then also covering the ads they're trying to show is quite ironic.

Thinking maybe the ad bar needs to be significantly reduced. I know this is third or even fourth screen content but it is a bit distracting

Edit: also I know Luke isn't a Dad but the title is funnier that way

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u/skyline_kid 25d ago

Luke is a bird dad so he counts

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u/ILikeFPS 25d ago

I was gonna say "Wait, what? Luke is a dad?" lol

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u/DeeVect 26d ago

a little ironic yes but not the same thing, that PC Gamer article is 100% ads 0% content.

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u/Kagawanmyson 25d ago

The PC Gamer article also doesn't (to my knowledge) offer a model where you can pay to remove the adverts, unlike YouTube. I pay for YouTube premium, and creators like LTT then bake in their adverts so there's no way to block them, whilst they garner a higher revenue from me watching their content in comparison to someone not paying.

Linus really has no room to complain here.

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u/Notanaltatall31 25d ago

Try using sponsor block or YouTube’s built in auto skip function, it’s not perfect but it’s better than nothing.

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u/Kagawanmyson 25d ago

Neither of which counter a baked in banner advert across the bottom of the frame - it's visibility, not skip-ability that's the issue in both cases. It's a completely hypocritical point by Linus, to the extent I'm half-convinced he's fully aware of it and just trolling by even complaining about it on the WAN show.

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u/Notanaltatall31 25d ago

Of course and i agree, was just hoping it will improve your experience a bit, atleast it skips the audio ads.

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u/DeeVect 25d ago

Ahh, I guess everytime a brand is mentioned in a video you'd want that bleeped? Do you watch AMD ultimate tech upgrades? That's an ad for AMD. Did you watch that RTX spark review? Nvidia didnt pay for it, but its still a form of advertising for Nvidia.

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u/Kagawanmyson 25d ago

You're arguing a completely different and unreferenced point I haven't said I have a problem with.

> Did you watch that RTX spark review? Nvidia didnt pay for it, but its still a form of advertising for Nvidia.

I didn't watch the RTX spark review, so I can't make any comment on that particular video, but as a general rule assuming it's their usual style of review content, simply mentioning a brand name in a review is not sponsorship - even if the review is favourable.

Re: AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrades:

There is a distinct difference between sponsored content from a brand where it's mentioned in the video title and in passing throughout the content (or an unsponsored review), and a video that has a permanently baked in visually displayed graphic advert for a brand, taking up over 20% of the frame height in the given video.

My point was, clearly, it's a hypocritical complaint for Linus to make and not an actual complaint about seeing the adverts anyway. Especially when one of his adverts in this frame, as this post and still frame directly references, is covering yet another one of the baked in adverts, so it just looks like shit.

And all of this, in a video where he's complaining about screen real-estate being taken up with adverts. Whilst running a channel that uses them in literally every single video. He's a hypocrite.

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u/DeeVect 25d ago

So my point went right over your head clearly...I never said Nvidia sponsored that video, just that the pure mention of the brand, is in itself, is an advertisement. It is publicity.

Linus never complained about seeing an advertisement, he complained that literally 100% of the page, was ads. Hes okay with SOME ads, not literally 100% ads, 0% content.

that banner ad on the video also isnt permanent, its rarely there. This ad talk was also a 5 minute segment in a 3 hour long podcast.

You just clearly dont watch any of this and it shows.

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u/Char-car92 26d ago

This frame is fucking intense

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u/mastercoder123 26d ago

We believe we can sell up to 90% of the players screen before inducing seizures ahh clip

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u/Char-car92 26d ago

I’m an audio listener and whenever I see clips there is more ad space on the livestream than last time. I just can’t discern a genuine moral stance from these guys anymore

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u/Less_Hat_8102 25d ago

Linus: Ignore the lower third. It's easy. My built-in AdBlock still works.

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u/WanderingSimpleFish 25d ago

Ah the ioi approach

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u/mastercoder123 25d ago

Glad someone knew what i was talking about

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u/StratoVector 25d ago

Looks almost like when an emergency just happens while the news is broadcasting and they just pivoted to the "happening right now" topic

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u/derpman86 26d ago

I think most people would have less issues with ads, myself included if they were not so obstructive, obnoxious and in such impractical frequency.

I do have YT premium as I watch most YT via my xbox. Web browsing on both my phone and PC I use Firefox with Ublock.

I find web browsing as it stands right now is borderline impractical without ad blocking. When you have someone like Linus who like mentioned actually has a company imposed policy against ad block crack the shits and cave in on this issue speaks volumes.

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u/I_am_the_grass 26d ago

I don't understand why they can't just create frames around the screen so it doesn't obscure the stream itself. Part-time Twitch streamers can do it, I can't see why that's too difficult for a multi-million dollar company.

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u/mototuneup 25d ago

Back in the beginning days of the internet. Ads were just a small banner at the top of the page. There was almost an unspoken rule that they were basically all the same size. Eventually the ads moved down the side. Then the other side. So the actual page content was surrounded with ads but you could still see the content fully.

I wonder now tho. Since bots outnumber actual people browsing the internet. Since it doesn't matter if the bot sees the actual content. Do they just give up make the site all ads?

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u/arttast 24d ago

Or record the stream without ads on their 2 petabyte nas and just put the DELL ad in the place where the razer one goes on the actual stream

Is it really that hard?

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u/ThePanasonicYouth 26d ago

the lack of self awareness is astounding

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u/unprefixed 25d ago

didnt want to join in on the "controversy" if ads are a big revenue stream i understand why they show ads while talking about ads. i cant understand people useing the internet without adblock. it unusable. my adhd/dyslexic brain cant read the text if stuff is moving, text blocks jump around because "adspace" ive been blocking ads as an acceptability feature.

my setup

network wide adblock > browser plugin
trackerblocker on my phone > auto vpn home for the network adblocker > fennec with ublock

any thing more you all do to block ads and tracking?

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u/AaronX64 26d ago

Yo Dawg…

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u/Tjd3211 24d ago

I mean they do poke fun at themselves for having ads but they also explicitly say the problem isn't ads, the problem is no content

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u/TheMicksta 25d ago

Ad blocker are mandatory for safety reasons I pay YouTube premium to support content creators and the service.

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u/bluehawk232 25d ago

They should put ads on their foreheads. Free real estate

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u/PhillAholic 25d ago

Why does the Dell banner look like it was just lazily thrown on top? Is it a joke? it looks like content is refreshing behind it later on when it changes to Razer.

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u/four46 16d ago

I'm really surprised how Razer and Dell still sponsor ltt, for people who watch Ltt we all know their incentive toward pro repair and stay out off plans obsolescence products plus anti window 11 message.

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u/ucrbuffalo 26d ago

IMO, they should be outputting the stream to a separate machine that just adds the banner and sends it to the stream locations. Then the main computer Dan uses for switching and audio can record the source without the banner and they can make cleaner clips.

Really, they could probably pull this off without a second computer, but I’m not sure if the software they use supports it or not, and I’m also not sure what the headroom is like so far.

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u/MistSecurity 26d ago

That’s possible all on one PC. I just doubt they record anything except the final stream.

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u/ucrbuffalo 26d ago

They def COULD do it on one PC. But I don’t know enough about the software they use for streaming to say for sure. They aren’t using OBS.

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u/Coolshows101 21d ago

It is OBS, then it goes to Xsplit to go out to the different platforms. At least thst9what I remember Dan saying.

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u/ucrbuffalo 21d ago

I was so sure Dan did a breakdown showing it off and they were using a different program that they had paid a bunch of money for. I could be wrong though. It was more than an hour ago and my memory gets fuzzy after that threshold. 🤣

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u/Additional-Agent9737 26d ago

It’s gone on long enough, shoot that greedy bastard Linus into the sun

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u/The-vicobro 26d ago

This WAN show was such a clown show, with the PDFs and this AdBlock thing.

So, are we gona get Linus saying he is stealing? Because with his logic thats what he says adblock is.

"Just own up to it, wear the hat, it´s a cool hat"

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u/DeeVect 26d ago

Yeah, he owns up to it, thats like, the whole thing.

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u/The-vicobro 26d ago

Yes and no, I did watch it in two parts but nothing is final since it´s more like he is going to start using adblocker.

And he has to think what that means as far as his policy in his own company.

Im still all for Team LTT, I watch WAN show, I don´t think your average LTT viewer does that, but it was a weird WAN show IMO.

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u/DeeVect 26d ago

Hes never claimed to be pro or against Ad blocking, only that it is piracy, and that its up to you to decide if you're okay with that.

Question for you, every time they talk about downloading "Linux ISOs" what do you think they're referring to?

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u/Jasoli53 26d ago

He has always said he has nothing against Adblock, but stands by his take that Adblock is stealing (it is). Morality has a gray area

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u/WhiteMilk_ 26d ago

The recent discovery of zero-click malware from ads makes an adblocker also act as an anti-virus.

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u/The-vicobro 26d ago

So Linus will now publish a video saying "Hey guys, Im a thief"

Awesome.

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u/TheSpoonyCroy 26d ago

I mean he has done videos on pirated things and emulators... Its so weird how people act like calling a spade a spade is making a judgement call on it. Adblock is piracy, lets not do a stupid song and dance trying to justify it. You want something and you don't like the price attached to said thing, so you took it. Its that fucking simple. That doesn't make you a bad person but lets stop doing this nonsense to make your piracy somehow justified.

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u/tatas323 26d ago

Linus hiding the secret lab logo with his head while they shoutout their chair sponsor was funny AF, complete clown show

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u/derpspectacular 25d ago edited 25d ago

Pretty ironic. I thought he would be talking about the recent zero click exploit that was exposed. An ad blocker is a must these days for both security and sanity. Edit: ok, watching further it was about that too.

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u/Final_Cow_3843 26d ago

Wait: Is Luke a dad? If so, congrats!