YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

  • Zozano@lemy.lol
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    4 months ago

    Honestly… How much has Google spent trying to counter people skipping ads?

    Is it less than the amount of potential profit if everyone was forced to watch ads?

    This seems like that situation recently where NYC paid a million dollars to enforce people to pay for train tickets, which was less than twenty thousand a year in lost revenue.

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      3 months ago

      I think it’s mostly about saving face for advertisers. Which is funny because Google never does anything for saving face for their users as they shut down services that literally cost a rounding error for them to run.