Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by tpmx on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:01PM (#24937600)

I think they explicitly choose to run the same ad over and over again for 40-60 times to the same user to force that user to subscribe to Youtube Premium.

(Someone's evil A/B experiment resulted in such a high conversion rate they couldn't stop themselves.)

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by ugh123 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:10AM (#24949068)

I think thats certainly in their repertoire too. In fact, they're probably experimenting with a number of degrading user experiences to see what performs best

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by dylan604 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:56PM (#24938298)

Just play political ads from whatever candidate over and over. That'll get somebody to make the ads go away.

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by leesalminen on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:13PM (#24938418)

I literally converted today because of this. Damn you Dr Squatch soap company.

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by davidjnelson on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:56PM (#24938299)

If people would pay for content we might have less ads...

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by ugh123 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:11AM (#24949073)

I wish that were the case. I'm regularly served just as many NYTimes ads as before I became a subscriber.

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