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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I find it fascinating how media companies evolved their usage of ads over time. Used to be that the purpose of showing someone an ad was to get them to buy your product. Now, though, the companies who make the ads are paying to have them put on media networks who use the ads to annoy you into paying for a premium membership so you don't have to see them. It's double dipping.

Not sure how I would feel if I made an ad, and YouTube was saying to their users: "Yeah, you like that fucking ad? Super annoying, isn't it? If you don't pay me more money, I'm going to cram that annoying bullshit down your throat every time you want to watch a video. I'm going to put ads at the beginning of videos. I'm going to sprinkle them throughout the middle. Hell, I'm even going to make you watch ads after the video ends! You like that, you little bitch??"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s the evolution of the premium cable model. HBO, Showtime, etc. The upgraded cable tier has ad-free content and exclusives.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup. I'm old enough to remember when the selling point of cable TV was that it was ad-free. Then, of course, they started adding ads. And then they sold us premium channels that didn't have ads. Now those have ads, too. You just can't get away from them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just can't get away from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now i want Pirate Bay to play the theme of pirates of the Caribbean every time i load it up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Gotta make that line go up somehow