Absolutely, remember when reddit killed itself with a shitty step?
Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How to kill your business model step 3
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Something tells me they’ll be fine and they know more than the tiny population of lemmy, a niche community of people notorious for using free software, pirating paid software, and avoiding corporate media.
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Based niche Lemmy community
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
right. because this user base is the only one who will take offense. Gotcha
TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most estimates are around 30% for people who use ad blockers. I would guess half or more of those are probably people who had someone else install the ad blocker for them (I personally do it for any family who has me help with their computer) and don’t even care about blocking ads. Half of the remaining half would gladly turn off the blocker to keep getting their YouTube fix. So we’re left with a tiny percentage of users who would actually be upset about this.
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yeah, big corporations never do anything wrong and never fail
Breve@pawb.social 11 months ago
Right, unless your business is a monopoly that maintains dominance because it can run at a loss since the parent company just shovels money into it that they earned in completely different markets.