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Assuming that this is actually a thing, I'd like to know why exactly. Obviously YouTube would prefer that its users watch the ads, but are they currently not m

Assuming that this is actually a thing, I'd like to know why exactly. Obviously YouTube would prefer that its users watch the ads, but are they currently not making enough money of their advertisers? At some point there should be a realization that after a certain point, you can dial that ad money knob over anymore, without hurting the product. YouTube hit that limit long ago and YouTube is unusable without an ad blocker or a Premium subscription. Ideally they could dial the number of ads back a bit, and require higher quality of the advertisers, but I doubt that an option anymore, I don't think users would uninstall their ad blockers at this point. YouTube damaged their product and now they are screwed an is attempting to "fix" the issue by force. YouTube ads was always a shit show though. They never had enough "inventory" and the quality of the ads was always really low. So you saw the same bad ads over and over, and they where never relevant to the content (still isn't).

photonthug 2y ago
YouTube doesn’t care if we actually watch ads but they have a limited ability to completely lie to advertisers (the real customers for everything now) about what is happening, despite all the self reporting. It’s tempting to just let them all spin in circles whIke me and my eyeballs leave the room. Let YouTube rabbit hole itself with unlooked for autoplays wasting their bandwidth and wasting advertising budget from megacorp. Self reporting on the total effectiveness of advertising and marketing departments everywhere will gradually hollow out budgets for everything else and then humanity returns to the Stone Age, problem solved! :bitter weepy laughter: Due to uptick in ad harassment and general user hostility I mostly quit using it many years ago. The last use case was the long format streams of rain, static, lofi etc. but those chill vibes are now interrupted with super obnoxious commercials that are 20% louder, and sometimes literally including screams or bangs that are intended to be attention grabbing. The internet is closer and closer to unusable these days.

photonthug 2y ago

YouTube doesn’t care if we actually watch ads but they have a limited ability to completely lie to advertisers (the real customers for everything now) about what is happening, despite all the self reporting. It’s tempting to just let them all spin in circles whIke me and my eyeballs leave the room. Let YouTube rabbit hole itself with unlooked for autoplays wasting their bandwidth and wasting advertising budget from megacorp. Self reporting on the total effectiveness of advertising and marketing departments everywhere will gradually hollow out budgets for everything else and then humanity returns to the Stone Age, problem solved! :bitter weepy laughter: Due to uptick in ad harassment and general user hostility I mostly quit using it many years ago. The last use case was the long format streams of rain, static, lofi etc. but those chill vibes are now interrupted with super obnoxious commercials that are 20% louder, and sometimes literally including screams or bangs that are intended to be attention grabbing. The internet is closer and closer to unusable these days.