YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
From the article:<p>&gt;“YouTube’s ad-supported model supports a diverse ecosystem of creators, and provides billions of people globally access to content for free with ads,” the company’s statement says.<p>Let&#x27;s at least be 100% honest with everyone and stop with the disingenuous garbage:<p>1. Ad-blocker usage is roughly 25-30% of US users.<p>2. The average YouTube content creator makes less than 0.02 per ad view and thus why many of the large ones choose to use sponsors instead. Most YouTube content creators aren&#x27;t making ANY money, let alone enough for them to care all that much. For those that are, they&#x27;re doing just fine w&#x2F;ad-blockers being used.<p>3. Google made nearly $70 billion in Q1; they&#x27;re not hurting at all, especially their executives.<p>4. The on-going rise in the use of ad-block technologies is simply because platforms, sites, etc, are all absolutely inundating viewers with so much trash in an effort to make more money that it&#x27;s almost a requirement to use them without having a shitty experience.