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This is one argument I've used in my head for ad blockers - you're removing hostile viewers so it might be a net win. It's like dropping flyers in a "no junk ma

by hnick 3y ago

This is one argument I've used in my head for ad blockers - you're removing hostile viewers so it might be a net win. It's like dropping flyers in a "no junk mail" box. I wonder if anyone studied it.

lacrimacida 3y ago
Advertisers would love to skip uninterested viewers, the problem is that someone else, in this case youtube, wants that money from the advertiser for your eye balls. I normally don’t mind the model of ads for free service but it’s a sewer of interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff).
- rtkwe 3y ago
  > interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff). Not really an issue with YT video ads though right? They're just annoying and too frequent but they're not really hazardous (beyond some cognitohazard of random crank stuff).
  - ornornor 3y ago
    Ads drive consumerism which comes with a rather large pollution problem, making the only planet we can live on that we know of more and more uninhabitable.
    - deleted 3y ago
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  - reportgunner 3y ago
    Why would YT video ads be any different ?
    - aembleton 3y ago
      They're not running third party JS on your machine; just a video.
    - rtkwe 3y ago
      AFAIK they don't get to run any scripts on your browser they just get to upload and YT plays the video.