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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave
(9to5google.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Ads are a way to fill people's heads with brand names until nothing remains except for those brands and only those brands feel safe and familiar until it becomes a conditioned reflex to choose those products. And it works.
The Holy Market forbids people would actually choose products based on their own experience and price.
brand recognition is desirable only if positive.