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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
PlainName:
Read that and below the headline it says there was a record number of installs too. The implication is that users were dumping failing blockers and instead installing other ones. Doesn't say (which the headline implies) that users were succumbing to pay for premium.
--- Quote ---But as at Ghostery, installations also surged as others looked for relief, reaching about 60,000 installations on Chrome on October 18 and 27. Subscribers grew as people realized AdGuard’s paid tools remained unaffected by YouTube’s clampdown.
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RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: madires on November 05, 2023, 12:25:31 pm ---YouTube's anti ad-blocker campaign has a noticeable impact: YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers (https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls)
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I wouldn't trust Wired, they changed. Nowadays everything mainstream media is propaganda. That article is a suspiciously TL;DR to be considered good journalism style. Not to say a tech magazine shouldn't have any political bias in the first place:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wired-magazine/
NiHaoMike:
Now let's see how much increased ad revenue, if any, do the content creators report.
madires:
Video from Louis Rossmann:
YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/youtube's-adblock-war-is-backfiring-in:c
PlainName:
It would backfire much better if Odysee would get around to having captions.
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