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| CJay:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on November 05, 2023, 04:39:11 pm ---Now let's see how much increased ad revenue, if any, do the content creators report. --- End quote --- I'm gonna guess nada, zero, zilch, nothing. But I bet Alphagoo post increased profits. |
| SiliconWizard:
Subscriptions are key to making a predictable revenue, which shareholders love. They are also key to making users even more captive than they already were. If you pay a subscription, all the more if it's paid yearly / has a yearly commitment, you're more likely to stay on the platform and use it, rather than go see elsewhere. Whether it's going to "work" for YT, I don't know. We'll see. You'd think it would backfire and drive users away, but "unfortunately", I'm not too sure about that. People are already hooked, and alternatives are few and not quite up to par. A minority will leave, a majority will pay. Probably. OTOH, if say people buy subscriptions, that allow bypassing all ads, en masse, then it will drastically decrease the ad revenue. And drive advertisers away. Fun shit. So the question is, how can they screw up both sides as much as possible in order to maximize profits? That'll take a few MBAs to figure that out. |
| peter-h:
Ublock stopped working tonight. YT detects it. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: peter-h on November 06, 2023, 09:05:06 pm ---Ublock stopped working tonight. YT detects it. --- End quote --- Don't use ublock, use something else. I don't use it and haven't seen any ad nor any change on YT. It looks like most "complaints" about ad blockers being detected revolve around ublock, yet people keep using it? |
| ataradov:
This is a perfect example why "works for me" does not apply here at all. You hear the most about uBlock because it is the most popular. YT and adblockers are in a daily battle to fix and break things depending on which side you are looking from. This goes for every adblocker, or at least the most popular ones. And at the same time, YT enforces blocking not for everyone. So, if it works for you, be glad it still does, you or your adblocker may be next. For popular adblockers, the best thing you can do is wait for a few hours until they fix it again. You can jump between them too, but I doubt it is a good long term solution. |
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