YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by cassepipe on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:53AM (#36548437)

I don't think I have ever seen microsoft ads in my country, not for Windows at least. They didn't make it by advertising rather that having deals to become the default because shipped in the hardware and the price baked in the price of the hardware.

Advertising should be heavily taxed so companies have an incentive to innovate and make better products. All the money that goes to advertising is money that don't go to R&D and salaries.

The internet business model is an exception because there ads actually fund useful services. It's anomally, a clever hack but should really be independant public services whose goal is to expand freedom of associtaion and peer to peer discovery and exchanges and could be funded with taxes.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by yafbum on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:35AM (#36558544)

There is plenty of Microsoft advertising in any country that they're in. But it may be more subtle. There's search advertising. They also subsidize partner advertising (co-marketing).

> The internet business model is an exception because there ads actually fund useful services.

?? Most public information services, including newspapers, radio, and television, are funded in large part by advertising.

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