I had started to think YT ads were getting worse recently but had convinced myself it was a frequency illusion. Interesting that others seem to be thinking that same thing though...
Do you also notice Google results getting even worse very recently? I noticed now besides retailers, I get news sites. Maybe it’s because of the election. It’s either product or news sites exclusively. Election or not, those two sites have the highest amount of ads.
No, they are getting worse. But it has changed progressively so there is not really a point in time when it went significantly worse rapidly (except if you’re collateral damage in the cat-and-mouse game with ad blockers).
But comparing across several years it is hard to ignore.
addressed somewhat to HN commenters in general and not just to you: it's okay to trust your first hand observations and real life experience from time to time instead of constantly reaching for increasingly complicated explanations for why you must be wrong when your experience doesn't match the data you've been fed
