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While I support the sentiment, you know that's not how all advertising works? CPM ads mean the publisher makes money because you saw the ad, regardless of whet

by dotBen 6y ago

While I support the sentiment, you know that's not how all advertising works? CPM ads mean the publisher makes money because you saw the ad, regardless of whether you clicked on it (CPC). Even if you never click an ad or buy anything from an ad, you are still helping the publisher make money.

dheifidjeh 6y ago
Wrong. It means the ad played not that it was actually viewed. Most people don't sit through ads and just ignore them. If you ignore ads but don't block them you're helping the publisher steal from the client. Personally I think that's wrong.
glenstein 6y ago
I didn't read them as saying anything about refraining from clicking ads. I took them to be saying they will avoid ads entirely, not viewing them but not clicking.
JulianWasTaken 6y ago
(I work in advertising, so yes I know how it works :) The hypothetical being discussed is "it's better to not use the service at all than to use it and block an ad". In this scenario, which impression would have been shown that now is not? Either way, no money is made by the content creator. The only way that person would make money is the third scenario which it seems you're talking about, whereby I use the service and watch an ad (and yes, for some of us, that will never happen).
- andretti1977 6y ago
  But such YT such the majority of any other service/work, isn't free: it requires a form of monetization in a way or another and YT uses advertisment. They have enourmous costs and they have much bigger revenues. If everybody blocks ads then they shut down. You don't work for free, neither them. I'm not a paladin of advertisment, simply saying those are their service conditions (that as a side effect provide money to content creators too). Don't like their terms of use? Well, don't use their service. Or adopt the other option they provide paying a premium account
- hajimemash 6y ago
  As a coder, this unbalanced smily-parenthesis is triggering my syntax error radar aggressively :)

by dotBen 6y ago

dheifidjeh 6y ago

Wrong. It means the ad played not that it was actually viewed. Most people don't sit through ads and just ignore them. If you ignore ads but don't block them you're helping the publisher steal from the client. Personally I think that's wrong.

glenstein 6y ago

I didn't read them as saying anything about refraining from clicking ads. I took them to be saying they will avoid ads entirely, not viewing them but not clicking.

JulianWasTaken 6y ago

(I work in advertising, so yes I know how it works :) The hypothetical being discussed is "it's better to not use the service at all than to use it and block an ad". In this scenario, which impression would have been shown that now is not? Either way, no money is made by the content creator. The only way that person would make money is the third scenario which it seems you're talking about, whereby I use the service and watch an ad (and yes, for some of us, that will never happen).

andretti1977 6y ago
But such YT such the majority of any other service/work, isn't free: it requires a form of monetization in a way or another and YT uses advertisment. They have enourmous costs and they have much bigger revenues. If everybody blocks ads then they shut down. You don't work for free, neither them. I'm not a paladin of advertisment, simply saying those are their service conditions (that as a side effect provide money to content creators too). Don't like their terms of use? Well, don't use their service. Or adopt the other option they provide paying a premium account
hajimemash 6y ago
As a coder, this unbalanced smily-parenthesis is triggering my syntax error radar aggressively :)