• @LostCause@lemmy.ml
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    41 year ago

    When will companies finally understand that some people won‘t watch ads no matter what tricks they employ. I‘d rather watch no video at all than a single ad. If that is their goal, fine.

    • @SuperZutsuki@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      And the percentage of people using ad blocking has to be crazy low. I’ve never seen another person in public with ad blocking. Every time I happen to see someone watching youtube, there’s ads playing.

      • @LostCause@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Yeah I worked in IT support for a time and most seemed not even aware it is a thing, let alone installed it. Mostly the other IT people and a few others.

    • @laxe@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      That’s likely their goal. At least some percentage of ad blocking users will disable the adblock and for those that won’t, they’ll save server costs.

      For corporations that care only about quarterly stock price this makes sense. They don’t care about the long term damage to the ecosystem (adblocking users still contribute in many ways).

      • @LostCause@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Yeah probably. I‘m not gonna pretend like I contribute a ton to Youtube, but I‘m still an audience member and being advertised to by the content (like sponsorships, trailers, hype and product placement). All that heavy handed blocking and banning approach does for me is push me towards researching alternatives. Similar to how I went from piracy -> Netflix -> piracy.