Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean if they really didn’t care about random visitors and cared more about making people watch ads. There’s a very simple way to accomplish that, they only let you watch if you’re logged in, and give your account a temp ban if you’re blocking ads. But since they’re not doing that they obviously see some value in anonymous visitors.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m thinking anonymous visitors are harder to track, and ad-watching farms are probably a thing too, I imagine.

    I’m guessing the value is simply a semblance of goodwill, to not be as transparent about their ad-watching mania. Maybe?

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