YouTube Shoots Google in Foot, Publishers Suffer Collateral Damage

Post by Flimm » Sun, Nov 24, 2013, 12:15 AM UTC

isomorphic wrote: post #37

ancarda wrote: post #5

Websites are expensive and other than charging users money, ads are an easy way to generate revenue. I like using free services and I'd like to support the owner. As such, I don't use AdBlock. However, YouTube forced me to. Back when YouTube used a small ad in the top-right, it was fine. Banner overlays were a bit more annoying, but still tolerable. Pre-rolls? No way, they stop me from getting to the content I want.…

I like using free services and I'd like to support the owner. As such, I don't use AdBlock. I remember years ago when Ars Technica ran the article "Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love": http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-d... So I disabled AdBlock on Ars Technica. I was immediately greeted with a horrible blinking ad claiming some nonsense that was completely insulting--the IT…

You haven't explained why you decided against avoiding visiting Ars Technica altogether.

Post by VikingCoder » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

TillE wrote: post #12

VikingCoder wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't most pre-rolls 3 seconds before you can watch the video? And it's funny to me to watch people smugly use AdBlock. All you folks who use it understand that Google could detect that you AdBlocked, and then refuse to show the video, right? I mean, you get that, right?

> Google could detect that you AdBlocked, and then refuse to show the video Emphasis on "could". They don't. So what? It's trivial to make anti-anti-adblock filters, so most sites don't even start that arms race.

Are you logged in to YouTube when you're blocking ads?

Google could announce, "Hey, everyone who has ad-blocked over the last year violated our Terms of Use, and so we're deleting their accounts."

Or they could just shut down YouTube, because it's impossible to earn revenue off of people who aren't even willing to watch an ad before they feel entitled to watch a video.

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