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A comment on Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android. Parent comment

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by tshaddox on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:27PM (#30445962)
> You are choosing, voluntarily, to consume the content that they are offering on their website.

And they are choosing, voluntarily, to serve you videos unbundled from advertisements.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by nomel on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:36PM (#30446088)
My assumption is that it's less of a monetary loss for them to serve the ads unbundled compared to putting the engineering resources behind bundling them. They, obviously, have the exact numbers readily available, and I assume the "money lost" lines will cross eventually.

Regardless, there is a loss, and they'll respond to it when it becomes significant enough.

edit: uBlock Origin has over 10,000,000 users, according to the chrome web store. I can only imagine something will change soon, or there's some serious technical debt holding things back.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by tshaddox on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:44PM (#30446936)
> My assumption is that it's less of a monetary loss for them to serve the ads unbundled compared to putting the engineering resources behind bundling them.

Yes, just like it's less of a monetary loss for you to install an ad blocker than subscribe to YouTube Premium!

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by nomel on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:42PM (#30463791)
The difference is that an ad blocker results in a one way transfer of value, without compensation.
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