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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The surface level entitlement in these threads are always off the charts.

Everyone is on this bandwagon that Google hates adblockers on youtube. It certainly does but it hasn't been this agressive as of late.

You know why?

The issue google has is with server farms guzzling up the entirety of their video database for training their AI. They're using open source tools/frontends to do these downloads. That takes up lot of resource and bandwidth unlike ignoring the minority of plebs using youtube without ads.

They want to rule the AI trend not fuel the COMPETITION. They will do whatever to keep their competition from getting ahead.

And it isn't cheap to keep up with server farms unlike letting miniscule numbers of terminally online mouth breathing basement dwellers who think too high of themselves block ads.

But whatever floats your boat.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

So, where does entitlement fit into all of this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If this is the problem spending a lot of effort to also serve ads along with the real video seems like it'd increase costs.

What you're talking about is a real problem for Google but it's not the only cause of the new behaviour since Neal took over

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It sounds like a projection. Many times someone makes an angry, hasty comment but all their inside problematic thinking patterns flow out for all to see.