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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoI 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.
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.
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.
Lose, not loose. Loose uses a soft S, and means uncoupled, held in a less firm grip.
Bruh, it’s not even hard to tell that it was a typo. Nobody asked for dictionary.com.
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.
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.
i tried to “unblock” my ads for some channel owners, nope instant bombard with tons of ads.
Trust me, there’s no way people are going to fund creators that much.
Literally a bunch of martial arts YouTubers that keep getting asked by fans if they would play D&D together, so they started a patreon/gofundme and got back almost 500% of their funding goal in only 2 days.
People absolutely would/will fund the creators they care about.
Don’t worry. Those normies are about to cost us the whole open web, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.
That’s why I install that stuff for the people I know.
This applies to everything 😄😄😄
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 days 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.