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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker

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madires:
'Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices': https://finance.yahoo.com/news/consumers-paying-more-ever-streaming-181821039.html?guccounter=1


--- Quote ---Some observers see another reason for the frequent price hikes: to push subscribers to their breaking point, and compel them to opt for a lower-priced, or even free, ad-supported plan instead.

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... because subscriptions are fixed revenue, and ads have no ceiling. I wonder if YouTube is following that strategy.

metrologist:
uBO is randomly detected. I wanted to listen for a part of a music video to recall if the cover was the original or not. The ad played black screen and audio only - no skipping.

I was more focused on finding if I could skip it that I did not even hear what the product was.

I was talking to the web lady here at work and was searching for some company related content. The first result was a sponsored ad. She tried to stop me just before I clicked it. Don't click the sponsored link; you just costed someone some money, she exclaimed.

Gee, what if there was a script that would automatically play just the ad part of videos, in the background, and everybody in the world had it covertly installed. Oh wait, I think there is already something like that going on, and YT demonetizes videos or channels that have "unusual activity..."

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: madires on November 07, 2023, 09:17:24 am ---'Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices': https://finance.yahoo.com/news/consumers-paying-more-ever-streaming-181821039.html?guccounter=1

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I predict the rise of low cost streaming services like Curiosity Stream. Then in time, those services raise prices until they get undercut by newer services.

Or piracy becomes popular again, in fact many already have VPN services to get around geoblocking nonsense.

--- Quote from: metrologist on November 07, 2023, 10:05:05 pm ---Gee, what if there was a script that would automatically play just the ad part of videos, in the background, and everybody in the world had it covertly installed. Oh wait, I think there is already something like that going on, and YT demonetizes videos or channels that have "unusual activity..."

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The idea already exists, some testing in the past shows that it really does work.
https://adnauseam.io/

thermistor-guy:

--- 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 usually run Firefox. It's locked down with Disconnect, Ghostery, Adblock Plus, Privacy Badger.

When YT stopped working a few days ago, because of all the blocking, I installed Brave browser. It worked fine as is, with no ads showing up.
No doubt YT will block Brave as well, eventually. Firefox is working again.

I am shadow-banned on YT, so bottom-line: Google is banned from my wallet. I will pay for blockers and browsers that circumvent YT's
countermeasures.

madires:

--- Quote from: metrologist on November 07, 2023, 10:05:05 pm ---uBO is randomly detected. I wanted to listen for a part of a music video to recall if the cover was the original or not. The ad played black screen and audio only - no skipping.

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If that happens reload the page (known timing glitch).

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