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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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_345 ◴[20 Jun 25 17:56 UTC] No.44330184[source]▶
What if people just paid for services they use and depend on frequently
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1. crazygringo ◴[20 Jun 25 18:05 UTC] No.44330276[source]▶
There's a long tail of people who don't use YouTube frequently but click play on videos embedded on other sites, or on videos linked.

So of course they're never going to pay. That's the problem advertising solves -- infrequent users can be monetized.

YouTube already has an option to pay to avoid ads, for frequent users. And lots of people subscribe to it.