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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are ads really that useful when the users subjected to them hate ads from the start?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to the advertiser, but to the one getting money for the ad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do they get money for an ad about a product I will never give a chance to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Product pays Google to show you the ad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah gotcha. Ty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cost Per Impression