YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers
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That's less money that advertisers like Google have to be shitty.
"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral." -- Abbie Hoffman
Does anyone else remember installing a bunch of copies of that Win98 era software that would put ads on you desktop and cut you a cheque every month?
If you're a startup, don't do this. Maximizing the growth exponent does a lot more than tweaks on per-user revenue. Intentionally annoying users is bad business.
When companies do this, it's also good to look at PE ratios, since it suggests they don't anticipate growth.
Indeed. The question I have is does that mean it goes eventually the way of Microsoft/IBM, or the way of SGI/Computer Associates?
HP is at about a fifth of it's peak market cap, largely as a result of a similar play.
I'd short Google, but there's an old saying that markets can be irrational far longer than an individual wallet can sustain a short....
I has entered this phase at least 10 years ago.
No one is suggesting Google should encourage anything. Openly user-hostile actions devalue brand and trust. That's doubly-true for power users who are thought leaders.
If Walmart has store security shoot suspected shoplifters and unionizers with a 9mm, discontinuing that policy would not be encouraging unions or shoplifting.
This is a straw man. I obviously didn't mean that I thought you suggested that Google should explicitly tell people to use ad-blockers.
Now tell me how not doing anything to discourage people from blocking YouTube ads supports Google's long term interests. Or tell me how they could discourage people from blocking their ads without "[devaluing] brand and trust."
Google maintains a monopoly and their brand. Profits are entire the of percent lower by the few power users who use all blockers. Big-O profits remain similar.
That contrasts with real competition, brand loss, or monopoly loss. That can lead to astronomically lower profits.
Or an extension/program that lets me pre download the first few minutes of a video, so I can start watching it after 2–3 minutes and won't get annoyed by ad that plays within the buffered amount of time.
Or an extension/program that silences, blacks out ads, and notifies me when the ad is over.
Personally, as much as I dislike Google, I'd rather everyone get off their youtube addiction, rather than use adblockers (or other similar circumvention methods. Their popularity (IMO) sends a strong signal to the platform owner that people value their content so they should keep fighting against such tools.
The pressure Google puts on content creators forces them to skew greatly towards quantity not quality, and other terrible metrics like "engagement". Adblockers put further pressure on them to go out and personally find sponsors. IMO this makes the situation worse as they're focusing on not pissing off advertisers, and stay away from being opinionated, etc. All this probably won't affect established creators, but pushes everyone else to be vanilla.
I really hope it doesn't come to that
However with that same ingenuity, you can probably make money implementing other things and easily pay the $15 monthly sub for no ads.
If you have such skills and spend more than like 10 minutes on a solution, I think you lost money/time. But I respect it if it’s about beating the game (hacker mindset and all)
My love goes out to each and every one of them. Bless their souls.
apply some robot detection tech and block robots/scripts
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...
Doesn't seem to be affected by the issue reported here.
Like lovely little leprechauns making the world a better place while I sleep.
And subscriptions still work well enough to be usable. Turns out, not knowing whether I've watched a given video isn't a problem.