S07E16: Achtung!

Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!

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Attention Economy on Wikipedia
Brave’s Basic Attention Token
LTT’s infamous sponsor segues in a YouTube compilation
Jay Forman’s Tube Map YouTube video with a SurfShark VPN ad towards the end
Dynamic ad insertion
- The Verge’s article on the topic
- Interactive Advertising Bureau’s US podcast ad revenue PDF report
  - Page 12 shows that in 2021, dynamically inserted ads brought in 84% of revenue, as opposed to 16% for “baked in” ads. This trend has been on a steep rise in the last few years.
Data brokers (from Wikipedia)
Ethical ads
- Their ad server is open source, you can self-host it
Ad Nauseam
Ready Player One
Idiocracy
All the tech giants want all the advertising (from The Economist)
YouTube Music pays more than Spotify, but it’s still close to nothing: $0.008 on YTM against $0.003 to $0.005 on Spotify per stream. (from Hypebot)
Odysee
XKCD on free speech
Perceptual blinders on Wikipedia
👍 uBlock Origin
👎 Adblock Plus
Blokada for Android and iOS
Adaway for Android
Pihole
Adguard
YouTube Vanced
NewPipe supports YouTube, SoundCloud, https://media.ccc.de/ and PeerTube
DNS66
The Attenborough mural
The stripes on the painted house were red and white, not yellow and purple