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You are not their customer - advertisers are. This is a good change for the advertisers.

• realusername 3y ago
  That's only because Google is shortsighted and stuck in the ads business, the ARPU is abysmal with ads even compared to a mediocre paying user. YouTube gets the lowest revenue per user of all the major platforms and shoving even more ads through the pipeline won't help that.
  • JohnMakin 3y ago
    I'm not commenting on whether it's good for business or youtube, just more that this is the lens in which you need to view these changes that seem otherwise baffling because it's so bad for the end user experience.
• mpalmer 3y ago
  It's true and it's no mystery to me, just tragic and irritating.
• yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  The thing is: >> I've grown to hate several advertisers simply because Youtube puts them in front of me so often. It eventually backfires on their customers, too. I've started dropping products that I see advertised.