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When asking "why?" for something like this, follow the money. This one is pretty simple: 1. The ad is paid for already by someone. 2. To remove an ad, there needs to be a system to report it (or an automation). 3. To check that system, requires human effort. 4. The human effort to review ads likely costs more than the ad paid to be displayed. 5. The effort to minimize that cost costs more than the revenue lost by dis…
When asking "why?" for something like this, follow the money. This one is pretty simple: 1. The ad is paid for already by someone. 2. To remove an ad, there needs to be a system to report it (or an automation). 3. To check that system, requires human effort. 4. The human effort to review ads likely costs more than the ad paid to be displayed. 5. The effort to minimize that cost costs more than the revenue lost by dis…
I go back and forth on this. On the one hand, yeah, I value my time more than that amount of money. On the other hand, it would mean actively rewarding YouTube for being terrible, including making it a monetary positive for them to leave those kinds of ads up. As incentives go, that seems like a poor choice.
YouTube ads have become mostly spam for me too lately. Some of them are making very dangerous medical claims, I'm also shocked google has done nothing but also not surprised at all.
When asking "why?" for something like this, follow the money. This one is pretty simple: 1. The ad is paid for already by someone. 2. To remove an ad, there needs to be a system to report it (or an automation). 3. To check that system, requires human effort. 4. The human effort to review ads likely costs more than the ad paid to be displayed. 5. The effort to minimize that cost costs more than the revenue lost by dis…
With uBlock origin you pay $0 and skip ads.
When asking "why?" for something like this, follow the money. This one is pretty simple: 1. The ad is paid for already by someone. 2. To remove an ad, there needs to be a system to report it (or an automation). 3. To check that system, requires human effort. 4. The human effort to review ads likely costs more than the ad paid to be displayed. 5. The effort to minimize that cost costs more than the revenue lost by dis…
> Personally I value my time more than the $12/mo it costs to not see ads on YouTube. I go back and forth on this. On the one hand, yeah, I value my time more than that amount of money. On the other hand, it would mean actively rewarding YouTube for being terrible, including making it a monetary positive for them to leave those kinds of ads up. As incentives go, that seems like a poor choice.
When asking "why?" for something like this, follow the money. This one is pretty simple: 1. The ad is paid for already by someone. 2. To remove an ad, there needs to be a system to report it (or an automation). 3. To check that system, requires human effort. 4. The human effort to review ads likely costs more than the ad paid to be displayed. 5. The effort to minimize that cost costs more than the revenue lost by dis…
With uBlock origin you pay $0 and skip ads.
I think letting uBlock stay up as an extension is a brilliant move by Google. It means that the people that use it eventually won't have any content that they actually want to watch, because nobody can make money making it for them.