• Mii@awful.systems
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    2 days ago

    Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.

    Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.

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      1 day ago

      I’ve seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it’s a lot

      not sure I’d say it’s unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless

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      1 day ago

      Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.

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        11 hours ago

        The majority of humanity doesn’t own a PC.

        The majority of people I know just use a smart TV and just take the ads up the ass.

        Some people even just ignore the entire idea of skipping them, or acknowledging them in the first place.

        I could, but… meh energy.

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          9 hours ago

          My first reaction was to think about how humanities main 3 qualities are intelligence, social groups, maths [on phone, imagine i linked to Dijkstras article on counting here], and the ability to chuck spears very well. But meh effort.

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          1 day ago

          I mean, yeah, the people on Lemmy aren’t atypical of the populous though.