Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by hnick on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:49PM
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This is one argument I've used in my head for ad blockers - you're removing hostile viewers so it might be a net win. It's like dropping flyers in a "no junk mail" box. I wonder if anyone studied it.
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Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by lacrimacida on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:04PM
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Advertisers would love to skip uninterested viewers, the problem is that someone else, in this case youtube, wants that money from the advertiser for your eye balls. I normally don’t mind the model of ads for free service but it’s a sewer of interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff).
Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by rtkwe on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:55PM
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> interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff).
Not really an issue with YT video ads though right? They're just annoying and too frequent but they're not really hazardous (beyond some cognitohazard of random crank stuff).
Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by ornornor on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:31AM
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Ads drive consumerism which comes with a rather large pollution problem, making the only planet we can live on that we know of more and more uninhabitable.
Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by reportgunner on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:20AM
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Why would YT video ads be any different ?