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I just heard someone I subscribe to say something about adblock hurting his profits, but I could have misheard.

I still get adds with adblock on. They are pretty rare but they happen..Anyway a lot of sites now that still need

their annoying or flashy little pop up adds for revenue throw a disclaimer up and block a vid until you turn it off,

and that's usually the only time my adblock ever goes off.. I'm pretty sure this guy was confused, but I could be

wrong. I've never heard a youtuber complain about adblock before so I'm just curious.

 

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That article basically shows what I needed to know. I personally don't know anybody that sits there clicking on

ads in their fav youtubers videos, but youtubers are still making a decent living regardless. It's really small

channels that don't know how to market themselves right that might actually complain about this.. Can't

believe this guy was actually complaining about it.. but that's what patreon, live streams, t-shirts.. I have

had an irl friend get on to me for using adblock on free streaming sites and shit, but that's kind of different.

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Well to rap up my short little to do or not to do question. I think I might at least unpause my adblock here

and there on youtube. Especially if it's an actual friend trying to get a good channel started, It hurts the

little guy a lot more than it hurts google, which has owned youtube for years now. Google still gets to

make their ad money off the sheer amount of uploaders uploading to youtube, but some people have

brought up the potential of adblock to end the whole free viewing aspect. This pretty much sums it up.

 

 

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I don't think it effects YouTube because most adblock programs are designed to block popups and such, and not ads that, for example, just play automatically when you click a video.

 

I have AdBlockPlus, strict popup blocker AND UBlock Origin.  And YouTube ads still play regardless of all that.

 

So I think the complaining dude is full of shit probably.

 

Internet advertising is so ridiculously oversaturated anyway that I don't think anybody much notices it beyond just being annoyed that there's so much of it.

 

Also one of the big factors in ditching the Proboard (though admittedly not the most important reason) was that Proboard carries mandatory ads with it, you can pay to shut them off but that's just as much a cashgrab scam as the ads themselves.

 

Also that guy is an annoying corporate suckup douchefucker.  "Nothing in life is free" ... unless it is.  then - it's free.  Unless you're attempting to schill for your corporate overlords, but at least being all "hm, if I put on my furry costume first, and couch my words right, people will just take me for a happy go lucky internet character".  Oh yeah, don't forget to stay "high energy" and "friendly" and "make lots of gestures" so the slobbering internet masses don't tune out on your pitch to fill their empty lives with advertising.

 

His douchey video basically amounts to "give us money, and/or give our advertisers money because money".

 

Block ads.  Fuck that douche and fuck his website and fuck his advertisers.

 

 

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I don't think it effects YouTube because most adblock programs are designed to block popups and such, and not ads that, for example, just play automatically when you click a video.

 

His douchey video basically amounts to "give us money, and/or give our advertisers money because money".

 

Block ads.  Fuck that douche and fuck his website and fuck his advertisers.

 

seriously dude...edit yourself

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whoops sorry

 

I don't think it effects YouTube because most adblock programs are designed to block

popups

and such, and not

ads

that, for example, just play automatically when you click a video.

 

His douchey video basically amounts to "give us

money

, and/or give our

advertisers

 

money

because

money

".

 

Block ads.  Fuck that douche and fuck his website and fuck his

advertisers

.

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Well to rap up my short little to do or not to do question. I think I might at least unpause my adblock here

and there on youtube. Especially if it's an actual friend trying to get a good channel started, It hurts the

little guy a lot more than it hurts google, which has owned youtube for years now. Google still gets to

make their ad money off the sheer amount of uploaders uploading to youtube, but some people have

brought up the potential of adblock to end the whole free viewing aspect. This pretty much sums it up.

 

 

 

 

fuck-you-bitch-o.gif

 

Adblock got popular for a reason. Ads are annoying as fuck and yes even though I don't think there are malware/virus problems on sites like youtube, the type of ads chosen and them being unskippable still make them shitty.

 

I'll give Twitter some credit though. I think they might be getting better with targeted ads because they've been sliding more Wonder Woman stuff and make-up tutorials into my feed. The fact that I can just scroll past them without drama also increases the odds of me checking them out.

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whoops sorry

>_> If your talking about the guy in the video I'm sure he is a douchebag corporate suck-up, but he

hit a lot of the valid points I'd probably hit after looking into this a while and scanning multiple sources.

I will say this. I paused adblock and continued to watch youtube, and I got a pre-roll ad like EVERY video.

I saw an ad from Mcdonalds to the top right of markiplier's channel above the suggested vids. With adblock

on youtube is almost completely adless for me, no pre-roll ad no very small advert for sponsors or anything.

This thread was focused mainly on youtubing, but I'm sure you have alot better idea and maybe negative

experiences if you've developed any type of basic site..forum or whatever. My goal was to go over how the

simple every day joe makes money from youtube, and adblock can hurt their profits substantially from what

I've seen.

 

Speaking of web developers I remember just THE WORD "Adblock" was filtered on the ASMB because I guess

the network, and or content creators TRIED to hinder the spread if it, and that gave me a good chuckle.  :|

Basically all I'm saying is if you know anybody struggling or just starting out trying to get into the business

and you want to support them think about pausing adblock for a few minutes while you view their content

if you know and trust them it isn't costing you anything it's just another free way to support what they do.

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I support creators by purchasing their work and/or supporting their causes, etc.

 

Not by supporting randomly assigned advertisers that probably don't even know or care what said content is.

 

taking off your adblock does almost zero for said content creators.  All it really does is support a terrible system that doesn't really work for much of anyone (content creators or consumers) and contributes to the ongoing erosion of humanity and individuality in general, as well as creates an illusion of potential success even though it basically does nothing but perpetuate the top-down economy that simply is unsustainable.

 

Honest people should be trying to make honest money of their content.  Not mincing around all friendly like making sure they hit their gestures and speak with a sense of urgency because internet.  The idea of turning off your adblocker to support content creators is a superficial designer idea created by people who want you to turn off that pesky adblocker so they can channel you, gather your information, and make money off you and perpetuated by content creators that don't know much about the issue, but know they want that extra few cents from the ad click.

 

That douche in that video could give two fucks about your privacy, or who you are, or anything else.  Just like his advertisers, all he cares about is how he can make money off you and your data.  He can't do that if you've got your adblocker up.  There's no "aw jeez guys look at it from the poor advertiser's side".    the real other side is:  If you have an ounce of fucking integrity, you won't sell the data of your patrons to the highest bidder, or expose their data to somebody just for tossing a few pennies your way for every click they get.

 

 

 

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You're supposed to get contracts with companies and throw the ads into your videos like linus tech tips does - which is funny since someone actually posted a video of his in this thread

 

 

all other ads are intrusive and I will continue to use ublock origin on them and everywhere on the web.

 

 

Adblockers block intrusive ads - not ones that are legitimate ( provided you configure it correctly.)

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I don't think it effects YouTube because most adblock programs are designed to block popups and such, and not ads that, for example, just play automatically when you click a video.

 

I have AdBlockPlus, strict popup blocker AND UBlock Origin.  And YouTube ads still play regardless of all that.

 

So I think the complaining dude is full of shit probably.

 

Internet advertising is so ridiculously oversaturated anyway that I don't think anybody much notices it beyond just being annoyed that there's so much of it.

 

Also one of the big factors in ditching the Proboard (though admittedly not the most important reason) was that Proboard carries mandatory ads with it, you can pay to shut them off but that's just as much a cashgrab scam as the ads themselves.

 

Also that guy is an annoying corporate suckup douchefucker.  "Nothing in life is free" ... unless it is.  then - it's free.  Unless you're attempting to schill for your corporate overlords, but at least being all "hm, if I put on my furry costume first, and couch my words right, people will just take me for a happy go lucky internet character".  Oh yeah, don't forget to stay "high energy" and "friendly" and "make lots of gestures" so the slobbering internet masses don't tune out on your pitch to fill their empty lives with advertising.

 

His douchey video basically amounts to "give us money, and/or give our advertisers money because money".

 

Block ads.  Fuck that douche and fuck his website and fuck his advertisers.

I only see ads on Youtube when using non-Adblocked computers.

 

Most streaming websites request Adblock to be off so that their ads will play.

 

Seems like you're doing something with these programs most of us aren't.

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I only see ads on Youtube when using non-Adblocked computers.

 

Most streaming websites request Adblock to be off so that their ads will play.

 

Seems like you're doing something with these programs most of us aren't.

 

Rofl as if trying to stream grey-area licensed content on here wasn't a red flag to confirm the statement you just said

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I think my Firefox is set up nice.

 

sometimes I forget and surf on my Chrome which isn't set up for it.  And it's like so irritating to click on a 2 minute trailer (already an ad) for a movie or tv show or video game or something, and have to sit through a 3 minute+ ad to get to the actual trailer.  It's a crazy internet.

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Rofl as if trying to stream grey-area licensed content on here wasn't a red flag to confirm the statement you just said

While some of it is grey-area, not all. Last I checked, Hulu and non-subscription Crunchyroll don't run well with Adblock.

 

I mean.... Hulu doesn't run well in general, but worsened with Adblock.

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You're supposed to get contracts with companies and throw the ads into your videos like linus tech tips does - which is funny since someone actually posted a video of his in this thread

 

 

all other ads are intrusive and I will continue to use ublock origin on them and everywhere on the web.

 

 

Adblockers block intrusive ads - not ones that are legitimate ( provided you configure it correctly.)

Still a small black banner ad from your sponsors on the side of your video that absolutely in no way hinders the

watchability of the video will go unseen. Sure you can call that "intrusive", but for people that do gaming channels

or have series set up so stopping for an ad or trying to put some product placement in there shit without pausing

the stream is going to upset viewers. It's not as easy as you make it sound, and they legally have to meet certain

requirements from the advertiser to get paid. I was just trying to provide some food for thought not get a bunch

of keyboard warriors to turn off their adblock..

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Still a small black banner add from your sponsors on the side of your video that absolutely in no way hinders the

watchability of the video will go unseen. Sure you can call that "intrusive", but for people that do gaming channels

or have series set up so stopping for an ad or trying to put some product placement in there shit without pausing

the stream  is going to upset viewers.it's not as easy as you make it sound, and they legally have to meet certain

requirements from the advertiser to get paid. I was just trying to provide some food for thought not get a bunch

of keyboard warriors to turn off their adblock..

He's also wrong about the definition of legitimate ads.

 

The creators are encouraged to have in-video adverts (god I hate that shit more than anything, actually), but some people get monetization from the commercials generated onto their videos.

 

Commercials that Adblock blocks.

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Short answer: Yes.

 

Long answer:

It doesn't affect their money in the way you think it does, directly. Youtubers get money from their AdSense accounts, via Google. Part of that money goes back to advertisers, so they can get more ads up, part of it goes to Google, for hosting fees. The amount they get is dependent on the number of clicks that ad gets. Problem is that "clicks" on ads usually aren't intentional. Not only that, it's hard to count what is a "watched" or "viewed" ad on YouTube. Adblockers still affect these numbers, because ads don't make it to the ones that click or view them.

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Im aware of this I've looked and asked around at this point.  Someone told me google takes about 40%

of their total ad revenue. I think it matches up with this I'll repost it. There ARE still otherways to make

money off of avertisements other than getting lucky when a viewer accidentally clicks an ad, or baiting

them into it. Especially here in the present day..

 

http://videopower.org/how-many-views-to-make-money-on-youtube/

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