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Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown

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Post by threadweaver34 »

shostack wrote: post #78
threadweaver34 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta started getting beat up about a quarter before Alphabet. They were 6 months ahead on a hiring freeze, and 3 months ahead on layoffs. They've been thinking about this a lot longer, and markets respond to if you beat the number the market was expecting, not if you beat internal or external forecasts.

How is the number the market was expecting different from an external forecast?

"The market" is a bunch of people and computers all making their own guesses that may or may not agree with with the guesses expert analysts make.

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Post by seunosewa »

yegle wrote: post #116
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #71

You can’t really feel sorry for them, they could turn this around in a heartbeat by being more customer focused.

FWIW, consumers (users of Chrome/Android/Gmail etc) are not Google's customers. Advertisers/Google Workspace users/GCP users are.

Many consumers have signed up for google cloud storage for their mail and photos. They are google's customers too.

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Post by kitkat_new »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #61
petesergeant wrote: post #59

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I am tech savvy and run ad blockers on all my devices. However I consume Instagram through an app, and can’t be arsed setting up an ad blocker that would deal with that. I have bought a whole bunch of stuff through Instagram ads. I see too many ads on Instagram, but not enough to make me stop using it, and the ads are apparently relevant enough. I assume this is a large reason why websites are so keen for you to use…

I've been so much happier with YouTube when I removed the Android app and replaced it with an icon on my home screen that goes to https://m.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions in Firefox (with uBlock Origin). Works perfectly.

I switched to ReVanced

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Post by qilo »

oefrha wrote: post #104
qilo wrote: post #15

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I'm clicking somewhat often on youtube ads, because there's no way to escape them without the content blocker, so you have to watch the ad anyway. So if I have to wait anyway until the ad ends, I just waste aditional click. But I never buy anything nor have any interest in the advertised product. I do this mainly for 2 reasons: - waste the budget of annoying/scam ads in hope that in the future I'll see less of those…

> support the content creator Do realize that unless the content creator is in the YouTube Partner Program, clicking on the ad does not support them at all, you only waste your time making Google more money.

Is there an easy/simple way to spot if the video I'm watching is monetized for the benefit of the creator?

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Post by lamontcg »

mirekrusin wrote: post #128
lamontcg wrote: post #125

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does pi-hole work for youtube ads on chromecast?

Chromecast has hardcoded google DNS but it only adds bit of complication, you can do it, internet is your friend.

Yeah except youtube ads cannot be DNS blocked and require something running on the device like ublock origin. From the pi-hole FAQ:

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-block-ads-on-youtub...

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Post by m348e912 »

loveparade wrote: post #5

The fact that the ad model has worked so well is always a nice reminder of how much of a bubble I live in. Personally I have never intentionally clicked on a Google/YouTube/etc ad. Never. I wonder if the general population has been getting more tech-savvy and skeptical of ads over time, but this change takes a very long time to play out. I sometimes see my dad clicking on ads because he doesn't understand the mechani…

>Personally I have never intentionally clicked on a

>Google/YouTube/etc ad. Never.

You may not have clicked on a YouTube ad, but you still needed to _watch_ some or part of that ad. Maybe you weren't influenced, but you were at least exposed to whatever the advertiser was selling.

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Post by I_AM_A_SMURF »

jemmyw wrote: post #137
I_AM_A_SMURF wrote: post #25

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I think your bubble might be very tech heavy. My wife (a millennial) and her friends buy things from ads All. The. Time.

What do they buy?

Beauty products, phone cases, cheap jewelry stuff like that.

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Post by jemmyw »

I_AM_A_SMURF wrote: post #158
jemmyw wrote: post #137

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What do they buy?

Beauty products, phone cases, cheap jewelry stuff like that.

ah. Should sick my millennial wife on them. Her clothes have to be literally falling apart at the seams before she consents to considering new ones. Doesn't wear beauty products. Had a knitted case made for her phone 5 years ago. I did not seek out a person with these attributes but I'm pretty glad about it. The only downside is she isn't that tolerant of me buying tat either.

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Post by asdff »

ptman wrote: post #121
asdff wrote: post #90

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I identify with the "oh I never intentionally click on ads" segment, but I still click on ads mainly on mobile. That's because mobile developers are entirely user hostile like the early 2000s web developers who brought us popup ads. half the time I try and scroll some article on a mobile website these days, I get a banner ad that pops up which I accidentally misclick. I even misclick 'benign' banners on ios native ap…

Firefox mobile makes it possible to use ublock origin to block ads.

Not on ios
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