Youtube and others want their users to disable adblockers to increase their revenue from advertisements, but will forcing the users to so do be effective in ...
My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.
My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.
Yup; we are not the target audience, I guess