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A comment on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by bootlooped on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:57PM (#38062087)
I use an ad blocker just as a blanket response to too much crap on websites and being uninterested in having advertising be in my face as much as it would be without. However, that's not to say that all advertising is irrelevant, or that I'm immune to it. When an ad gets through usually my response is something to the tune of "oh well".

The devil's advocate argument against your second to last point is that you'd actually be getting higher value from getting an ad on the eyeballs of an adblock user, because your ad is a bigger slice of the total ads they might see in a day. Do you want your ad to be 10% of the total ads somebody sees, or 0.5%?

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Tao3300 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:40PM (#38062549)
> 10% of the total ads somebody sees

I have a special reserve of hatred tucked away for advertisers who take up that much of my consciousness. It's top-shelf, cask-conditioned hatred. Rare, excellent stuff.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by bootlooped on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:16PM (#38062902)
So if you see 10 ads in a day, say while you're sitting in a doctor's office, you hate each advertiser? What if one of them is from a business you already patronize?
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Tao3300 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:40PM (#38063969)
That's a good one :D we need a dedicated thread for Dad jokes.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by dantyti on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:20PM (#38062334)
It sounds nice in principle, but, anecdotally, I had some youtube ads slip through on my phone recently and made a mental note against buying any of the brands advertised.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by bootlooped on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:18PM (#38062917)
I get the emotional response, but it's not logical. The only thing the advertiser did wrong was pay Google to advertise their product. Can you imagine what percentage of products or services you regularly buy that have done that?
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