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A comment on Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users. Parent comment

Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by penagwin on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:03PM (#19392394)
Aren't youtube ads pay per click? In which case adblock doesn't cost the creator money (if you weren't going to click an ad), and their viewer/subscriber count is still normal (important for non-youtube sponsors)
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by 12298765 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:05PM (#19395514)
Pretty sure they aren't -- on my PS4 for example, YouTube shows ads just like on PC/mobile, but they're totally unclickable. There's no button for "see more on this ad" or anything.

I know this because it has shown an ad for something that I was interested in buying, and I tried everything to get to the ad and couldn't. Ended up having to Google it on my phone!

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