Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 6 months agoYouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changeswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down10
arrow-up1185arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changeswww.youtube.comPete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareahornsiruplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoA truly shocking number of people don’t use any form of adblock. I doubt that driving off the adblock users will have a significant effect on viewership (and even if it does, why would Google care, it’s not like we’re making them money).
minus-squarenull@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoThere’s also plenty of people that do use adblock today, and would just put up with ads if it stopped working. So the actual number of people that would simply stop using YouTube altogether is lower than the number of people that use adblock today. And from YouTube’s perspective, those people aren’t contributing revenue anyways, and all they get is a little bit of usage data. Easy trade.
minus-squareAnarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoYup. Much the same suit as the Reddit migration, sadly.
A truly shocking number of people don’t use any form of adblock. I doubt that driving off the adblock users will have a significant effect on viewership (and even if it does, why would Google care, it’s not like we’re making them money).
There’s also plenty of people that do use adblock today, and would just put up with ads if it stopped working.
So the actual number of people that would simply stop using YouTube altogether is lower than the number of people that use adblock today.
And from YouTube’s perspective, those people aren’t contributing revenue anyways, and all they get is a little bit of usage data. Easy trade.
Yup. Much the same suit as the Reddit migration, sadly.