Yes! Youtube ads have at least doubled in frequency and intrusiveness.<p>I returned to twitter after over a year, so I could see some links on a few email newsletters I get. Lots and lots more ads, mostly video, and mostly from what look like ChatGPT-generated company names: Dulale, Tuzely, Lucazoo, Lureza, Beitro, Keybla, Starcess. I see the exact same video posted by multiple "companies". How do I know? I make a habit of blocking all Twitter ads. If I see the same video, it's from a different "company".
No, I've declared a personal holy war on ads. I have many filters enabled on uBlock origin, and I don't own iOS devices on which blocking is less effective. If a website doesn't let me view with an Adblocker, I don't use it to the extent I can. I've had enough with ads and I think targeted ads should be wiped off the face of the earth. Answering the question, I see maybe an ad every 3 days.
I have noticed this as well. I speculate that it is knock-on effects from the tight monetary climate we are in.<p>I think there are a lot of companies that have an uncertain future and are trying to be "default alive". Perhaps the services they rely on have trimmed free tiers or raised prices?
No. I haven't seen ads other than the occasional spam email that gets through the filter in years and I make every effort to avoid using a web browser (by using RSS, yt-dlp, wallabag, etc) to keep my personal attention economy a command economy.
Yes, the internet is becoming unusable.<p>Google search results are horrible and lead to low effort blogs by peacocking beginners who are trying to monetise a paragraph and 2 lines of code.<p>Paywalls and ads(if using without adblock) on anything interesting of value.<p>Social media is a information harvesting machine pretending to foster human connections.<p>Dating apps are designed to keep you single forever and owned by a single corpo.<p>News are owned by few folks as well and the only interesting discourse happens on X.