How come Youtube ads are so easily blocked with adblock? Google

>>62239008
cause everyone would fuck off elsewhere

>>62239024
where would they go?

>>62239008
Not that easy to block if the router can block everything except those I guess.

>>62239008
Adblock users are just a fraction of overall traffic.

>>62239008
doesn't twitch have this?

>>62239058
they are losing billions from adblock

>>62239077
Citation needed

>>62239077
Nah they are not.
% of ad lock users is still nothing compared to % of normies.

>>62239143
almost 1 in 5 people use adblock are you saying that doesn't cost them money?

>>62239008
Youtube doesn't make money

>>62239143
>>62239183
https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/

more than 600 million people use adblock

thats more than half billion people

>>62239196
Fucktard, youtube lives only thanks to ads, if it didnt make any money then google would shut it down....

>>62239008
>Google owns Youtube, so why don't they embed their ads into the videos and make them unblockable?- 11 posts shown.

>hi i know next to nothing about how internet or advertising work but why doesn't it work the way i imagined in 5 minutes it should?

>>62239008
It really makes you wonder, don't it?

>>62239229
>hi I have no idea how the internet or advertising works but I am gonna make a meme arrow response and pretend that I know even though I haven't explained why

>>62239213
>more than 600 million people use adblock
that 5 times less than the view count of gangnam style

>>62239229
How about instead of being a snarky woman you take some time to explain why hes wrong.

>>62239213
What percentage of Youtube views are from mobile?
Tell me that first.

If using the Youtube app then the number of simple adblocking methods reduce. It's more the local proxy and root level adblockers there, which the majority of adblocking users don't use.

>>62239008
lol fucking retard

>>62239008
>why don't they embed their ads into the videos
You mean re-encode the videos so that if you download a video it would have an ad? If that is what you mean then one reason to not do that is flexibility. Once you embed an ad, you can't change it. So everyone, everywhere would see the same ad in the same language. With the current method, they can serve whichever ad they want when they want to.

Some YT content creators actually "embed" ads already if they have sponsors. But I don't think it would make sense for YT to limit how many ads can be viewed by on video.

>>62239077

income you were never going to get cannot be counted as losses

>>62239275
this isn't product selling.. if they didn't have adblock they would have viewed the ads and google would get paid

>>62239291
>ad appears
>I walk away and mute my speakers
>wow I'm stealing all of Google's money now
Unless Google and other ad providers agree to pay for damages done by ads to my machine, or guarantee that their ads are not malicious (they won't/can't) I will not unblock ads on my network

>>62239319
how can google ads be malicious?
you mean you gonna get offended by ads?

>>62239250
>>62239255
I don't give a shit if I convince a retard who got on the internet in 2014 to use facebook

If you can't think of a reason embedding ads is a completely retarded idea, you won't grasp it even with a detailed explanation

>>62239329
I do not trust their ads to be safe 100% of the time. Why should I?
>Offended by ads
I'm offended by their existence, not the content they show.

>>62239334
>doesn't know why its not possible
>still pretends he knows but he is too smart to tell us even though he already replied 3 times

ok buddy

>>62239361
does this weak ass shit work on your junior high buddies nigga?

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>>62239077
>"OY VEY THE BILLIONS!"

>>62239418
I used to be a dumb kid too and pretended I know stuff on the internet and when people asked me I just told them I am too smart to answer lmao

>>62239225
It's been a money pit for years. I don't know why they keep it around. I'd assume it would be related to finger printing and consumer prediction algorithms or information control.

>>62239487
or maybe because it's the #2 site in the world

>>62239453
yeah i care so much about what some 80 IQ punk thinks about me

>>62239225
YouTube didn't really make money for them about 2 years ago.
>if it didnt make any money then google would shut it down....
Why is Street View still operational, 'fucktard'

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>>62239523
>claims he is too smart to waste his time on stupid questions
>but still has the time to write 5 replies to let us know how smart he is

the more you reply the more you prove how dumb you are

>>62239523
>or maybe because it's the #2 site in the world
I agree. Information control. Just look at the massive censorship policies they've begun to enforce. I remember every few years some huge new youtube policy comes along that scares people, but what are you going to do, stop using youtube?

>>62239547
>being this butthurt and begging for explanation in a passive aggressive way

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>>62239077
Good.
Ad companies where never welcome on the internet. They are parasites

>>62239621
does pretending to know stuff on the internet really make you feel better? is this your mechanism to curb your insecurities?

>>62239008
Since nobody else has answered this very reasonable question, I will:

Ads are targeted, and ads are kept up to date. Youtube doesn't want to re-render the video to bake in the ads for every user that's being given a different ad, and every time new ads replace old ads. If you watch a year old video, you get it with ads from this year. To do that with baked in ads they'd need to re-render all their year old videos whenever a new ad came out. You might think they could render to each viewer on the fly, but that would also be expensive and would prevent them from serving videos from CDNs.

tl;dr: too expensive. It's more cost effective for youtube to just eat the cost of adblockers.

>>62239687
then how come native ads bypass adblockers?

This guy has no idea what he's talking about:
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>>62239628
most of the free sites you like wouldn't exist without ads

>>62239687
ok maybe with video ads, but what about text ads? they could easily embed these on the page

>>62239699
The only youtube ads that make it through adblockers are those baked into the video by the video creator. e.g.
>...but before I talk about that, let me just take a moment to mention my sponsor for this video Audible....

Those make it through adblockers because how the fuck would an adblocker stop them?

>>62239750
Baked in text on the videos have the same exact problems that baked in video ads would have. You'd have to re-render the video every time you want to serve a different text ad.

>>62239008
They are literally inserting ads sponsored by youtubers in their own videos. (((Reviews))) are just glorified ads

>>62239774
there are ad services like Taboola and Outbrain that show ads even if you have adblocker. I see them alot in news sites like CNN and Fox

>>62239823
Maybe you should update your adblocker.

>>62239823
Example?

>>62239721
That's fine. I'd rather deal with paywalls or enthusiasts who just pay out of pocket and eventually do a donation drive.

>>62239721
I don't like any website and I hope they all die.

>>62239225
>if it didnt make any money then google would shut it down....
wow you're clueless. there's a fair bunch of internet companies that lose money but are valued at billions of dollars, and their value is growing more than the net loss they generate. of course you don't sell that even if it costs you money to maintain

>>62239077

hell seger

because then people would just scrub past them and creators would be mad their videos are being altered plus that would give a signifigant delay in uploads to rerender the video with the embeded ads also upsetting creators

>>62239258
>What percentage of Youtube views are from mobile?
I couldn't tell you but I block ads on mobile as well, so what's your point?

>>62239774
joining two videos can be done on-the-fly with ffmpeg

>>62239008
It's part of (((their))) plan

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>>62239057
>Not that easy to block if the router can block everything except those I guess.