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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

But the value per person they get from " use your data to tailor ads for those around you" a tiny amount and the amount they get from selling your eyeball space directly to paying customers is (comparatively) vast, I could easily see it being 1000x greater or even more. Youtube is going to war on adblockers for a reason.