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Bloody fools. They don't know what beast they are waking up. Certain portion of ad blocker users are zealots. These people are insane and quite a few of them ar
by guy98238710 3y ago
Bloody fools. They don't know what beast they are waking up. Certain portion of ad blocker users are zealots. These people are insane and quite a few of them are quite resourceful. Just a few problems that are going to hit YT:
- torrents and other piracy
- rapidly evolving ad-blockers
- undetectable ad-blockers sitting in a new page layer invisible to page scripts
- visual ML ad-blockers detecting ads no matter how they are loaded
- new ad-free P2P video sharing websites
- influential users discouraging everyone from using YT
- popular content creators moving off YT and advertising other hosting options
- eYrKEC2 3y agoFriction is enough. At Intel they had a product where they wanted to prevent certain use cases ( I forget which), but they were satisfied keeping out everyone who didn't have $50 of equipment and a little knowledge to defeat their mechanism. They weren't afraid of electrical engineers defeating them -- they expected that. They just put in enough friction to prevent _most_ people -- pareto-optimization.