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

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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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Lynx@jlai.lu
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Shit you don’t want yet. That’s the idea of ads, trying to sell you shit you don’t want or need. Why advertise the stuff that you’re already buying?

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Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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Advertisements are for a large part about brand recognization. Even if you’re not going to buy the product, the fact that you remember the brand means the ad has worked.

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Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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There are tons of products I’d impulse buy, old lego sets, spice and hot sauce samplers, custom gaming dice.

I won’t normally go out to shop for them but if they show up as an ad I may click and buy.

But they NEVER advertise anything to me that I like or am interested in. It’s always bullshit

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Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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Exactly. Show me ads for guitar parts, pen inks, and 80’s kid stuff. I would impulse buy the shit out of that. Instead it’s “Want this loot box filled with bullshit that a hipster is trying to sell”. No thanks.

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saplyng@lemmy.world
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Because an animated 5 second ad telling me to buy more dice and horde them like the goblin I am would work on me!

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