Explanation and data(not mine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX1eEe8erkQ commit made on 2025-09-11 3:44 UCT that has high likelihood of correlation with drop in views as it's one of default bloc...
Maybe that was true in the past. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if ad blockers haven’t multiplied by at least 100x. Ironically, due to YouTube increasing ad time to “compensate” for ad blockers.
It used to be 1 ad per video, which you could skip after 5 seconds. Then 1 at the start, 1 at the end.
I used to not block ads, willingly. Since they fund the content creators.
However, then they started with ads in the middle of the video. Unskippable ads. More than 1 ad in a row. I had to use an ad blocker in order to be able to actually watch youtube.
The content creators don’t need my ad anyway. They earn way more money than the average person. And a single ad-watcher can watch more ads in 1 video than I used to do in 50, so they don’t lose much from me.
I can’t understand this move by Google. Sure, they made more on YouTube, but the AdBlock I installed because of it now also blocks google ads in the entire internet. Surely they made a loss on that, right?
I thought users who have content blockers are a tiny minority in the global scale?
Maybe that was true in the past. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if ad blockers haven’t multiplied by at least 100x. Ironically, due to YouTube increasing ad time to “compensate” for ad blockers.
It used to be 1 ad per video, which you could skip after 5 seconds. Then 1 at the start, 1 at the end.
I used to not block ads, willingly. Since they fund the content creators.
However, then they started with ads in the middle of the video. Unskippable ads. More than 1 ad in a row. I had to use an ad blocker in order to be able to actually watch youtube.
The content creators don’t need my ad anyway. They earn way more money than the average person. And a single ad-watcher can watch more ads in 1 video than I used to do in 50, so they don’t lose much from me.
I can’t understand this move by Google. Sure, they made more on YouTube, but the AdBlock I installed because of it now also blocks google ads in the entire internet. Surely they made a loss on that, right?