Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by Shekelphile on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:19PM
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I don't think they will lose. The average luddite doesn't care about seeing ads and will look perplexed at you if you tell them about ad blockers. Other services injecting ads into video streams have already been 'winning' for years. Ultimately youtube will push the envelope until even the people paying for premium will be seeing ads and savvy people will move on to pre-downloading videos and stripping ads from them before watching or similar janky solutions.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by ls612 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:26PM
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I suspect it’ll be like Twitch where they tried hard for a while and then stopped because of the diminishing returns. YouTube will probably shake out everyone who doesn’t really understand tech and then find they are spending the same amount for less gains. And then the situation will stabilize again.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by crop_rotation on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:29PM
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Where did twitch stop? Unless you do more and more custom shenanigans, uBlock origin has not blocked twitch ads for a long long time, and the ads are extremely repetitive.