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Comment by garciasn

From the article:

>“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.

Let's at least be 100% honest with everyone and stop with the disingenuous garbage:

1. Ad-blocker usage is roughly 25-30% of US users.

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't making ANY money, let alone enough for them to care all that much. For those that are, they're doing just fine w/ad-blockers being used.

3. Google made nearly $70 billion in Q1; they're not hurting at all, especially their executives.

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's almost a requirement to use them without having a shitty experience.

parent garciasn 3 years ago

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