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If they just made the ads unintrusive people wouldn't bother installing adblockers. But sure make the ads longer and see what happens.
Also changed how ads are served so they wouldn't be a known security issue. Intrusive or not I will block all of them until security improves.
It's like you don't care about stonks and shareholder value.
I care about those things.
I want them to go down faster >:)
Exactly, people used to love ads. They would sit down and watch hour long compilation videos of the funniest and weirdest ones. People would get hyped for shit like Old Spice and Skittles and never skip it. Even the Superbowl was less entertaining than the ads it had and that was a mainstream opinion.
It's the exact same as the boomers who keep crowing "Why doesn't anyone wanna work?!" but now it's "Why doesn't anyone want ads?!" lmao
Wrong. Still would.
Nah, take a look at the stats of the number of people who tried out an adblocker for the first time when Youtube attempted to ban them several months back. Streisand Effect in action.
If they made ads unobtrusive they wouldn’t be able to charge as much for them.
Most people still would.
I personally wouldn't, that's why I use Adblock Plus. But there's a reason everyone started hating on ABP when it started allowing non-intrusive ads by default. Most people do not want to see ads at all, no matter what.
Back in the day it was just some stuff, like "bosch screwdrivers, 29.90" or something, now it's attention grabbing hyper annoying crap, who can even live with that?