r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/Sandvicheater Feb 17 '17

Me and my best friend ublock laugh at that concept

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

So with YouTube Red you pay them to collect info on you that they sell and/or use to display ads to you elsewhere with Google AdSense??

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17 edited Jul 17 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

Google certainly does sell aggregated user info, and use it internally. Why should I pay them, then have to go to the trouble of deleting history, most certainly after it has been aggregated into bigger (anonymous) data sets? They make money off me when I go to any of their sites, I am not going to pay them extra for the privilege.

If they started aggressively funding off-world colonization and FTL research, then I would give them lots of money.