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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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