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YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stefenauris@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social

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okay Google, how about this. I already pay for premium, but Im too lazy to disable my adblocker for just your site, can we just call it a draw and move on?

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[–] Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Companies pay YouTube for advertisements. Google's not just putting ads on videos for fun.

[–] Nyaa@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think anyone disagrees with that, but YouTube today has a lot more ads, especially spammy ones, than YouTube 7 years ago did. This is an issue with them using a business model that doesn't scale very well.

[–] panoptic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Interest rates were basically zero for a decade, then they spiked this year with every indication that they aren’t going back to zero anytime soon.

This is radically shifting the approach for many tech companies.

Not saying I like it, just saying it’s why rapid enshittification is happening