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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
madires:
The 'enforcing ads' story boils down to a simple assessment. How much are the operation costs for streaming video to viewers with an ad-blocker? And how much would ad profit drop when fewer viewers cause the platform to be less popular and make advertisers less willing to pay top dollar for ads.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: tom66 on October 14, 2023, 01:06:43 pm ---My god it's unbearable sometimes, I wonder if any of the developers of these websites actually use them on mobile.
--- End quote ---
None of them, if they have any sense >:D
CJay:
Running UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and PiHole here, just recently started to get a dire warning about adblockers being banned on youtube or some such faux scary crap, I took it as notification to prune my subs list, went down from over 700 subs to 23 that I actually watch and post content that I find useful or interesting enough to endure Youtube's crap.
Clicking close on the pop up allows me to hit play and watch the videos ad free.
I don't mind paying content creators but I'm damned if I'm gonna put up with product placement, sponsored videos, mid play ads, pre-play ads, post play ads, data harvesting, targeted ads infringing on my privacy etc. etc. as well.
I'd rather do without.
So, in conclusion, Fuck Youtube.
jonovid:
in recent years youtube advertizing has become so obnoxious, same with google and its cookies ..
IMO youtube notifications are useless. I use the youtube search box.
PlainName:
Actually, I just realised I do get adverts - in the list of videos on the right, the top one is an advert. I can live with that, and my eyes have learned to ignore the top one anyway (which is why I forgot about it).
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