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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[โ€“] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always amusing to see people claiming to be these masters of business strategies pushing such excellent advice as "pay money to provide a service to people who supply no revenue".

Don't get me wrong; there absolute is a point where you can be so overly burdensome that you're going to push legitimate customers away and ultimately hurt yourself more than you help, and YouTube absolutely does do some stupid things, but business is so much more complicated than people like to think.

[โ€“] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They get tons of money harvesting data alone, the service isn't free: We are the product and, on top of that, they get their content for free with the actual creators of said content getting a pittance compared to what they provide for Google.

Additionally: I have never seen a credible report that indicates ad blocking actually has any sort of significant impact on revenue. Do you happen to have any because that argument sure smells like corpo bullshit.