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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If the service degrades to far due to using ad blockers then I'll just stop watching anything on YouTube. Easy.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Umm, ok. You were not making them any money before, when you were blocking their ads, why would they care if you left?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because the big channels will get a significant drop in views which lowers their sponsor pay and willingness to work with them.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I think you're overestimating how many people care enough about this.

    Remember when killing password sharing was gonna be the death of Netflix, and then they saw a significant increase in subscriptions and profits?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    A possible answer is because the creators that have their own sponsors in their videos want the view even if you don't see the Google ads, so Google on one hand want you to watch their ads while on the other hand cannot afford to really lose you since that would reflects on the creators and then if a creator leave for another platform (a big if, I agree) Google lose all the traffic generated by said creator, both who use an adblocker and who don't use an adblocker.

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