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You've put the cart ahead of the horse. Ad-blockers took off once they started throwing animated banners at us. Punch the monkey, win an ipod.

• Tenoke 5y ago
  That's not really true. Youtube ads specifically were way way milder and rarer years ago when way less people used Adblock.
  • sundarurfriend 5y ago
    And global warming was much milder when we had more pirates in the world [1]. Correlation is not causation. In the same period, YouTube's management style and public-facing attitude have changed dramatically, Google's general attempt at being the "good guys" has pretty much vanished, and beancounting has taken over as the guiding principle in many respects. I have zero reason to believe that had Adblocking not been a thing, there would have been any significant difference in the frequency or intrusiveness of the ads YouTube shows. [1] https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warming https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warmi...
    • Tenoke 5y ago
      Correlation is not causation but negative correlation is even more surely not causation and what I was replying to was >Ad-blockers took off once they started throwing animated banners at us which is still not true. When they took off the ads were still minimal.
  • gifnamething 5y ago
    That was when it was still a growing business. Uber was cheaper when investors paid for it, too.
  • ratww 5y ago
    I wouldn't call them "milder". They weren't static ads. They were video ads. Often loud and un-skippable for a certain small amount of time. This is definitely equivalent to a "punch the monkey" ad.