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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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[–] grill@thelemmy.club 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Yeah, but I'm sure a lot of people just bought youtube premium. I know my friend did...stupid idiot.

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I wonder how business owners feel about their advertisements being weaponized to push people toward subscription plans that eliminate advertisements.

[–] nous@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People that were running ad blockers were not seeing ads and business owners were not paying for those blocked ads. So I don't see why they would care at all.

[–] Goopadrew 4 points 1 year ago

True, but people who used to be served one ad per video are now being served 4 or 5, which both lessens the value of each individual ad, and gives more incentive to get rid of them with premium

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