I think this person on reddit summed up the youtube adblocker situation perfectly. my reaction to this is not “oh man guess I’ll watch ads.” its, “well, I guess I’ll just do something more productive with my time.” I highly doubt any adblock user is going to willingly go back to watching ads. so what actually happens is youtube loses a functionally tiny amount of its userbase–because adblockers weren’t even losing them a significant amount of money in the first place(!)–and a bunch of adblock users move on to something else. what a fantastic waste of time and effort
Adblock blocking inspires the exact opposite of me wanting to pay anyone money. I now want to find more ways to SPITE google and waste more of their money in bandwidth (and hopefully) creator payouts.
Also: Hey google, what if I just click on every ad you force me to look at?
ALT