What percentage of users actually use ad blockers? Google probably spends more money trying to circumvent adblockers than they'd get from the ad revenue. Are they driven purely by spite?
>>108239049Clearly enough people use it for Google to spend time on this.
>>108239049Most of my friends and family have no idea about adblocks and just run vanilla chrome on their windows/macos/iphone/samsung devices. But I think it's fear of the percentage growing due to word of mouth and just how much more pleasant it is to use the internet with an adblock, that it's hard to go back to not using one, so they try to abort the growth before it can become real trouble. I think they're not happy where it's at now either, but considering chrome/edge/mozilla stores don't even have a single adblock with over 100M users it's obviously a tiny percentage in a world where windows alone has over a billion users.
>>108239049Remember when Youtube's views dropped by half last year because of ad blockers? So probably half.
>>108239101This. I think they may ironically Streisand the use of adblock towards new normos by trying to abort the minority in growth. I’m still never paying for netflix and such, not even my windows license, so fuck em!
>>108239129>source: YouTubeEven then, adblock was only one of four reasons they listed. It wasn't 50% across the board btw, this was localized to a small subset of channels and the drop wasn't as extreme for most of them.
>Google probably spends more money trying to circumvent adblockers than they'd get from the ad revenue. Are they driven purely by spite?Its sad that this kind of moron now posts on /g/Google makes BILLIONS in ad revenue no they are not spending billions again trying to fight adblockers you fucking retard
>>108239170Work on your reading comprehension
>>108239101>check the most popular chrome extensions>Grammarly has 43 million usersWtf that's nuts
>>108239049They're probably thinking of making their ads more obnoxious and worried that it will just make everyone install ad blockers.
>>108239049Zoomers and below don't use them.
>>108239049probably a low percentage. i know people that work in tech as software engineers and refuse to use adblockers because they've been corpbrainwashmaxxed and think it will break stuffi'm talking about 140iq people manually clicking accept on cookie banners and watching every 7/7 queue of youtube ads
>>108239528I think normalfags are just used to ads so they practically don't register them, and their brains go afk while the ads are going on or eyes don't even notice them on sides. I have encountered some site issues with uBlock but honestly it's so rare that it's 100% worth as a tradeoff to turn off the adblock once a month versus look at ads forever. But I think corpos have succesfully morally trapped people into thinking it's stealing to not watch ads, or that they could get a virus by using an adblock that can spy on them or inject malware. It doesn't really have much to do with intelligence, people just aren't that passionate to learn about it or think about it longer, so they discard it pretty easily.
>>108239549it's driving me insane. one of my best friends is this guy i went to school with, we've known each other for almost 20 years, he's one of the smartest and most talented engineers i know working in fintech, could run circles around me when it comes to coding, but he refuses to install an adblocker and just defaults to watching through all the slop
>>108239049>Are they driven purely by spite?They're literally going to remove the ability to install custom apks on Android just to kill Revanced, which probably has a few thousand users at most. It's not even regular spite, I genuinely think they reached the point of insanity already, they're Monty Burns-tier evil now.If I had to bet, I'd unironically say that they truly believe that getting money from idiots is their holy right, and they see every person who refuses to give them as much money as possible as an enemy of their god who must be exterminated.
>>108239049The thing is most software developers don't spend 8 hours per day, 5 days a week writing code. When they're done with their tasks they just sit around doing nothing, waiting for their new task, or getting a 4am call in case the code they're responsible for breaks.It's quite likely not a big money/time investment from Google to task a couple of, otherwise idle, devs to find ways to break ad blockers. And I have a suspicion Google devs aren't thrilled with the idea of fighting against the autism of ad block developers (and also because they probably use those ad blockers themselves for personal use), so they half-ass their efforts just to tell management they tried.
>>108239685On the opposite side, I think there's been so many snively faggots that have shilled to their bosses how they could make google so much richer if they block ads and made up some meme projections and lies about how piracy and adblocking is killing google's potential to be the richest company in the world, and they'd do that in hopes of getting a promotion or getting in boss's good graces so they just make tons of problems for niggas working at ubo/adguard etc and have to spend a week or a month constantly trying to make unblockable ads with a/b rolling. i hate software developers and hr so much
>>108239648The normalfag loves the advertisements. McLuhan in Understanding Media at one point is talking about magazine during WWII and he mentions how the US Army would prepare different magazines for the troops and it would strip out the advertisements and apparently they got complaints from the soldiers who liked the advertisements. This happened so much they put them back in.He goes into more specifies and the whole book is worth the read.
>>108239708I honestly wouldn't mind ads if they weren't irritating, like pop-ups, or preventing you from streaming the video until you watch them, or flashing constantly. If there was a universal rule that only ads allowed in browsing the web were just side panel ads, I would honestly be 100% for it, I don't mind seeing personalized ads and sometimes they can actually be interesting and show some good discount for something I could be into. But the greedy fucks can't stop putting more and more and more ads into everything to the point where it's too unberable to do anything but block them all completely.
>>108239049If Google hated ad blockers they'd not allow them on Chrome web store. They clearly don't care because very few people use them.
>>108239049More than half of desktop users use adblockers. It is not 2010.
nobody buys a bottle of coke because they saw a billboard telling them tothe whole advertising industry is either a scam or a money laundering operation, or both
>>108239049Brave & OperaGX come with an AdBlocker auto-enabled, Edge does too but way softer than the others (and all 3 of those support uBO as well).A lot of normies use those web browsers. uBO Lite has ~15,000,000 users on Chrome store, uBO has ~10,543,190 users on Firefox Extensions page.So a fucking lot of people use AdBlockers.
>>108239101I install ublock for everyone I meet because I'm aware that 90% of attacks on normalfags go through online ads served by third party providers. They just need clueless retards to click their ad, and suddenly they're not on any trusted site anymore. Vast majority of zero-days wouldn't even happen if we had sane advertisement, but that wouldn't make infinite money so we are required to live in a less secure time than the Windows 95 era
>>108241188It's money laundering AND a scam. Advertisers know that nobody is looking at their ads, and they know that people who click on them are probably clicking by accidentThe entire business model is held up through scamming. It's like call centers. Call centers should make theoretically no money, but as long as they scam a single person, they have a business model. They're just hoping you're that singular person.
>>108241214>uBO Lite has ~15,000,000 users on Chrome store, uBO has ~10,543,190 users on Firefox Extensions page.That's fucking nothing, even moreso if you consider that mobile is the dominant platform for web/YouTube nowadays
>>108242343Many of the people who use Chrome on mobile that also want to use an ad blocker would probably have use something like the AdGuard app to block at the DNS level because Chrome mobile won't let you install extensions
Are we all forgetting that youtube doesn't make google money?
>>108239670>They're literally going to remove the ability to install custom apks on Androidstop spreading FUD buddy
>>108239049Put a dedicated team of 50 Indians on the problem and pay them luxurious $10 an hour. All in all a cheap investment to annoy the normies enough to cough up $200 a year.
>>108242383Actually, the latest Chromium on Android allows you to install extensions.Google added the option because they want to turn Android into a desktop OS so Android Chromium needs extension support. I'm using it on Android right now. No hacks, no patches, you just enable the flag, go to the extension store and install any extension you want. Takes one minute.
They had better be happy people use ad blockers. If I was forced to be served a scam ad they could be class actioned and held complicit because its forced on the user. Ad blockers give them a way out and iirc they're recommended by feds to use an ad blocker.
>>108246791You'll easily need more than 50 to make up for a few dedicated non-Indians.
i watch ads because they provide me useful material intelligence
>>108239129Views would go up because there's less time taken up by ads. Your take is batshit.
>>108239170You dumb fucking ape we are talking about youtube, where 90% of users are on mobile devices and smart TVs and use vanilla apps with full ads. Ad blockers are ran by a subset of the remainder, and an even more insignificant amount uses shit like vanced.
>>108248953The views dropped because the view endpoint got blocked by easylist.
>>108239049As a %, of intelliwebs traffic, globally. It'll be low. Low double digits at highest.
>>108246736>y-you can still install custom apks, you only need the developer to sign up for google play, show a government issued id, pay a fee, and have his app analyzed by google so it can be verified and you won't accidentally install a tampered versionSo, you literally can't install custom apks, got it.
>>108239528>7/7 queue of youtube adsYou're joking right? I switched to adblockers permanently when they started having 2 ads back to back. Is it really that bad now?
>>108250990i was exaggerating for comedic effect. but i actually don't know, i adblock too
>>108239720In the end this.4chan is like the only site i dont block ads because they are so unintrusive.sometimes i even click them when its not crypto scam
