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Yeah, "end of the arms race", are you kidding me Vice? I see 13 year olds watching their favorite youtube stars showing off the new products they're being spon
by INTPenis 10y ago
Yeah, "end of the arms race", are you kidding me Vice?
I see 13 year olds watching their favorite youtube stars showing off the new products they're being sponsored with this week. How exactly would you block this?
- ravenstine 10y agoThat's a very good point. But maybe it's a theoretical end of the arms race when it comes to predatory ads. I will take ads spoken by the host of a YouTube channel over autoplaying videos, adult dating banners, scrolljacking, and annoying modals any day. If all those things get replaced by advertising that is essentially voluntary and not deceptive or wasteful of computing power, then the ad blocking war may be won. We'll see. Also, your username. lol
- jhbadger 10y agoThat's just a return to how video advertising worked initially on TV, where Boston Blackie would light up a Lucky Strike and casually comment on how great it was in the middle of the action.
- bigbugbag 10y agoAssuming vice is right and this is the end of it and people use it, how do you expect youtube to stay online once google lose its advertising revenue ? This product placement problem just solved itself. Streaming video on the scale of youtube or facebook is not sustainable due to bandwidth cost.