YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."
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you're wrong, actually. Google sells ads, not data. They USE data to target ads which is where the big bucks are. If you block ads, all the data in the world wouldn't allow them to profit. So by blocking ads you are preventing Google from collecting any revenue from your participation
I didn’t say they sell data I said that the data they track has a value. Try again
well it doesn't have any value if it can't be sold or used
We can agree to disagree about this. I don’t think my obligation is to maximize my ARPU for Google. And given how malignant they are it’s now my mission to maliciously minimize my value to them. Maybe we are just on different wavelengths. Enjoy your Google services.
Sure, but I think you were being intentionally misleading by disputing that Google isn't making money off of you if block ads, despite the fact that that person was correct.
I go to a store, I see a nice shirt, I don’t buy it, but I tell a friend about the shirt and he goes to buy it. Did the store make money off of me?
I watch a YouTube video and share it with a friend. That friend watches it and consumes ads (because my friend is a moron, sure). Did Google make money off of me?
But that wasn't the point your were making. You were saying that the data has value in relation to your point, not the exposure. The implication you were making was that Google could still profit off the data
They are pursuing a multi variate strategy. They want to collect data and sell ads. They are directly related to each other.