Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
by midoridensha on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:32AM
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>I suspect Google is seeing less demand for ads right now while simultaneously dealing with expectations that their profits not go down correspondingly.
This seems like the root of the problem right here. Why shouldn't corporate profits go down when the economy falters? This should be expected. If you just keep running the company the same way and not pissing off the users/customers, things will improve when the economic situation improves. Rocking the boat just increases risk.
Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
by wkat4242 on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:01AM
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Yes but investors don't care. They will immediately drop their stock and tank your value the moment a competitor offers a higher return.
We should have some kind of model that incentivises long-term investment not this kind of short term profit extraction.
Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
by midoridensha on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:08PM
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We do have that, to an extent: capital-gains taxes are higher for securities held for less than 1 year. Maybe this needs to be extended or improved somehow.
One thing I’m sure the mess over at Twitter has done is getting companies to reconsider the value of their ads in general, too. That’s always hard to measure which means it looks like an east spot to cut, and I believe there’ve been multiple companies claiming that cutting to zero didn’t affect sales so I’d be surprised if Google wasn’t looking at a soft market where cost cutting looks like a more reliable path to improve their profitability.