Also a bizarre move considering they are so hard on for ads because Youtube is incredibly expensive to maintain. You are going to pay for comically large servers by... burning more computer time inserting ads into streams? Google screwed adbuyers before by not actually showing the ads where they were supposed to, Idk why they are trying so hard instead of doing more of that.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I was of the impression that a farcically low number of people even used adblockers in the first place.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago

As of 2021 it was roughly a third of people using them. No idea what it is now.

[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

32.8% of people worldwide use them at least sometimes. China stays winning the world's highest adblocker use (total and per capita) at 40%