YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers - eviltoast
  • Tygr@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t know about SponsorBlock until all this started. So many just found out ad blocking is possible.

    • Blue2a2@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      I only heard about AdNauseum because of this whole debacle. It blocks ads, hasn’t temporarily broken (as far as I have seen), and I set it to “click” 80% of all ads it sees.

      I have probably screwed whatever profile they built on me, cost the ad buyers money bc clicks, hurt the conversion rate for purchases to cost google money, and even possibly made money for my favorite creators and sites (depending on how they’re paid).

      Though someone lmk if I am misunderstanding something about it.

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        11 months ago

        Holy crap, now that is causing massive damage to advertisers. I didn’t know this existed either. If everyone used it, the entire internet would collapse because most of it is for-profit now, unlike 30 years ago (when I made my first site in notepad).

    • XEAL@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I discovered SponsorBlock after installing Smart Tube Next on a FireTV.