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Well, not everyone runs an adblocker!

• irrational 6y ago
  Other than not knowing about them, why would anyone not use an adblocker?
  • bittercynic 6y ago
    Some people feel that exposure to the ads is worth it to help the people who make videos. It seems to me the ads do a dollar's worth of damage to the viewer while only giving a penny of benefit to the author.
  • Kiro 6y ago
    Your question is a bait since any sincere answer to that always gets downvoted. However, I've stopped caring so here goes: I don't mind ads and have found many things I've bought through ads. I don't want the page I'm visiting tampered with. I want to experience the site exactly like it was designed, ads included. I like to keep up with ad trends. I'm afraid stuff will break and that I get a suboptimal experience without me even realizing it. I want to support creators and certain sites. I pay for YouTube Premium so not an issue there.
    • ogre_codes 6y ago
      > I want to support creators and certain sites. Well at least we can all agree on this one thing. How we get there without dealing with sites that load slowly, look like hell, and track me wherever I go is the big question.
    • skummetmaelk 6y ago
      > I want to experience the site exactly like it was designed, ads included > I like to keep up with ad trends Do you work in advertising by any chance?
      • CydeWeys 6y ago
        I would guess website design/front-end development. If that's something you do on your site then you'd definitely want to see what it looks like on others.
        • Kiro 6y ago
          Yeah, you nailed it. I'm a front-end developer.
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  • recursive 6y ago
    I think ad-blockers are bad for the web. Their proliferation will create an arms race that will end in more DRM. That's my reason.
    • deleted 6y ago
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  • city41 6y ago
    I primarily watch YouTube on my TV via a Roku. It's probably possible to jailbreak it and install an ad free YT app, but that's beyond what I'm willing to do.
• marta_morena_28 6y ago
  Sad for them. Seeing Youtube on mobile makes me gag each time. There is more ads than content, how can anyone actually bear this?
  • tlarkworthy 6y ago
    No ads if you pay.
    • mittermayr 6y ago
      What about the content creators dedicating intro/mid/outro to sponsors?
      • datguacdoh 6y ago
        double tap to fast forward on mobile is the best feature; reminds me of the 30sec skip I had on my TiVO a decade ago. I tend to jump past the monologues that all creators seem to have nowadays.
        • elcomet 6y ago
          Until youtube adds a feature that enables creators to choose unskippable sections of the video, and sponsors will require this from youtubers.
      • skocznymroczny 6y ago
        Do these dedications really help sales? I mean these kind of endorsements are so obviously fake, you know the content creator isn't using the product at all and is just reading the script.
  • takeda 6y ago
    https://vancedapp.com/ https://vancedapp.com/
  • petercooper 6y ago
    Agreed, but I pay for YouTube Premium. Now it's one of the last things I would cancel. Instant videos on every single device I own including TV.
• lotsofpulp 6y ago
  It's amazing to me that anyone on this site would not be using ublock Origin or content blockers in ios/macos.
  • missblit 6y ago
    I'm not using any ad-blockers. Ask Me Anything.
    • smabie 6y ago
      How do you maintain the will to live?