Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by zogrodea on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:50PM
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While reading your comment, I thought abouts ads for ad blockers like "hey, we noticed you searched for ad blockers so here are the top 10 best!". That's not a good idea though.
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Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by JD557 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:55PM
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> That's not a good idea though.
I wonder why you say that. At least an ad for a specific ad blocker sounds like a great idea.
- Ideally, you don't send ads to users of your product - Users of inferior products will see your ad, and it might be super effective (if you used MY adblocker, you wouldn't be seeing this ad) - Everything else is a user that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's probably an easy sell to say "would you like to never see ads like this?"
Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by pitched on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:56PM
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Could be worth it the price if the top one is an extension you own and lets some specific “partner ads” through.
Re:YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
by WhyNotHugo on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:09PM
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I can definitely see shady companies doing this.
Show ads for ad-blockers. Deliver an ad-blocker with spyware or other forms of malware.
The anti-malware industry used to be dominated by tools that ended up being malware (I’m sure that hasn’t changed much TBH).