YouTube has found a new way to bypass ad blockers by integrating ads directly into video content via "server-side ad insertion," complicating the detection and blocking of ads. How will ad blockers respond?
MBAs on their way to destroy their company's relationship with their customers and cause a socioeconomic disaster (their numbers will grow by 0.01% 💪💪)
If you don’t pay for something, you are not a customer, you are the product. If you pay for Youtube, you don’t see the ads, but you are also still their product. Lose /Lose
The network effect is too strong. The minority that are whining here isn’t going to make a dent. Next time you’re out, look at how many people are using ads ridden apps instead of paying $0.99 or whatever to remove them. The users have already decided their time and privacy is worthless and would rather getting the service for “free”.
If you’re not paying them, and you’re using the service for free, then you’re not their customer, you’re the product. YouTube’s customers are advertisers; not the creators nor consumers. You can, of course, graduate into a customer by paying for YouTube Premium… at which point none of these ads shenanigans would apply to you… thereby removing you from the (affected) pool of products.