YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • Lynx@jlai.luEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Shit you don’t want yet. That’s the idea of ads, trying to sell you shit you don’t want or need. Why advertise the stuff that you’re already buying?

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Advertisements are for a large part about brand recognization. Even if you’re not going to buy the product, the fact that you remember the brand means the ad has worked.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      There are tons of products I’d impulse buy, old lego sets, spice and hot sauce samplers, custom gaming dice.

      I won’t normally go out to shop for them but if they show up as an ad I may click and buy.

      But they NEVER advertise anything to me that I like or am interested in. It’s always bullshit

      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Exactly. Show me ads for guitar parts, pen inks, and 80’s kid stuff. I would impulse buy the shit out of that. Instead it’s “Want this loot box filled with bullshit that a hipster is trying to sell”. No thanks.