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Ad blocker blocker blocker blocker….. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Gemini24601 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They have infinite resources. They're making gestures to dissuade normies. I suspect this will get them most of the result they want. They're also wasting time, effort and resources of adblock programmers (and that is a far more limited resource).

[–] lemonmelon 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If they had infinite resources, they wouldn't need to worry about adblockers.

[–] Lyricism6055 2 points 5 months ago

They aren't worried about them. They are squeezing what they can out of the platform.

Iirc YouTube has a positive revenue now

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 1 points 5 months ago

Because they wouldn’t need advertising?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Sure but as long as there is a least one dedicated bearded dude hidden in a dark underground room behind his screen, they will be defeated. No matter how much they spent on the new technology. What I mean is that devs might burn out, they will still be replaced by others. And we get such people faster than youtube is able to burn them out

[–] zarathustrad 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They don't need to actually unblock everything. They just need to convince their advertisers and stock holders they are.