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What happens when everyone starts using ad block? Is the advertising market just going to collapse? I don’t think even the most willing consumer would sit throu
by peanut_worm 4y ago
What happens when everyone starts using ad block? Is the advertising market just going to collapse? I don’t think even the most willing consumer would sit through 10 ads for a youtube video.
- JohnFen 4y agoWe can but hope. History, however, teaches us that the ad companies will find some other sneaky and awful tactic instead.
- Nextgrid 4y agoWhat happens when everyone installs antivirus? Is the virus market just going to collapse? What happens when every e-mail provider has good spam filtering? Is the spam market going to collapse? Etc.
- propogandist 4y agoGoogle will begin crippling the technology that enables the adblocking, like the upcoming manifest v3 change.
- photoGrant 4y agoAdvertising is to Ad Blocking as Viruses are to Anti Virus. One will never stop trying to outrun the other. Ever.
- peanut_worm 4y agoSure but even there computer viruses have changed a lot since the 90s and 2000s. First they were purely destructive classical viruses and worms, then they shifted to extorting people with fake antiviruses and trojans, and now they are mostly ransomware. Malware is much more rare but also a lot more dangerous now. Will we see some similar shift in advertising?
- kjkjadksj 4y agoThe companies making the ads are capable of hiring orders of mangnitudes more engineers than however many people volunteer to maintain adblockers. Google/youtube is already using their monopoly on the browser to prevent ad blocking via extension changes.