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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have recently had a funny discussion with a husband of my wife’s friend. In short, he’s not an IT guy but does run ad blockers on each browser and device as he can. He was wondering why people wont use ad blockers since it is trivial to install and even chrome uBO lite works well on youtube (dunno about that fact, I have migrated to FF as soon as they announced Manifest V3)

  Normies just wont. It is just not what they do. And they are the majority.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m kinda glad they won’t. If I tell you how easy it is to install an ad blocker and you don’t, you’re just funding my leeching through your data and time that you claim has no value.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Normies just wont. It is just not what they do. And they are the majority.

    And that’s actually a good thing. If 90% of users used ad blockers on youtube, their profit model wouldn’t work and they’d stat locking more behind a subscription or they’d double down on cracking adblockers. We can enjoy an ad blocked youtube experience because the majority of users don’t.

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    • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah youtube will never stop being free no matter how many are ad blocking. They’d loose billions of active users and Alphabet’s shareholders will shit their pants. Content creators will all leave because they can’t pay the bills with 3,000 views a day.

      Youtube doesn’t actually loose anything from ad blocking. It’s advertisers who lose out and it’s easier for youtube to scam them than us.

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lose, not loose. Loose uses a soft S, and means uncoupled, held in a less firm grip.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        content creators mostly use patreon, brand deals and promotions, they know AD revenue is in the drain or they selling thier own products on thier channel.

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    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the other hand, If everyone would use adblockers, maybe content creator market would evolve into viewers supporting their favorite creators directly, or youtube having a subscription model that is much better than a current one in a way of user experience and creator support.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i tried to “unblock” my ads for some channel owners, nope instant bombard with tons of ads.

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Trust me, there’s no way people are going to fund creators that much.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t worry. Those normies are about to cost us the whole open web, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why I install that stuff for the people I know.

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  • BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This applies to everything 😄😄😄

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