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> You are choosing, voluntarily, to consume the content that they are offering on their website. And they are choosing, voluntarily, to serve you videos unbund
by tshaddox 5y ago
> You are choosing, voluntarily, to consume the content that they are offering on their website.
And they are choosing, voluntarily, to serve you videos unbundled from advertisements.
- nomel 5y agoMy assumption is that it's less of a monetary loss for them to serve the ads unbundled compared to putting the engineering resources behind bundling them. They, obviously, have the exact numbers readily available, and I assume the "money lost" lines will cross eventually. Regardless, there is a loss, and they'll respond to it when it becomes significant enough. edit: uBlock Origin has over 10,000,000 users, according to the chrome web store. I can only imagine something will change soon, or there's some serious technical debt holding things back.
- tshaddox 5y ago> My assumption is that it's less of a monetary loss for them to serve the ads unbundled compared to putting the engineering resources behind bundling them. Yes, just like it's less of a monetary loss for you to install an ad blocker than subscribe to YouTube Premium!
- nomel 5y agoThe difference is that an ad blocker results in a one way transfer of value, without compensation.