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The iOS app has become unusable for me because of this. Not only are there too many ads but they are so poorly targeted to me that I have to seriously question
by deeeeplearning 6y ago
The iOS app has become unusable for me because of this. Not only are there too many ads but they are so poorly targeted to me that I have to seriously question the capabilities of Google's army of engineers...
- ugh123 6y agoThat could just be an ad inventory thing. If YT doesn't have a targeted/discrete audience large enough within a campaign window to fill out impressions then they likely widen the net to complete the run.
- tpmx 6y agoI think they explicitly choose to run the same ad over and over again for 40-60 times to the same user to force that user to subscribe to Youtube Premium. (Someone's evil A/B experiment resulted in such a high conversion rate they couldn't stop themselves.)
- dylan604 6y agoJust play political ads from whatever candidate over and over. That'll get somebody to make the ads go away.
- davidjnelson 6y agoIf people would pay for content we might have less ads...
- ugh123 6y agoI wish that were the case. I'm regularly served just as many NYTimes ads as before I became a subscriber.
- leesalminen 6y agoI literally converted today because of this. Damn you Dr Squatch soap company.
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- ugh123 6y agoI think thats certainly in their repertoire too. In fact, they're probably experimenting with a number of degrading user experiences to see what performs best