Ad Block Plus is still working fine for meI get a popup from youtube and I click okay and it works fine
Ad Block Plus is still working fine for meSame here.
uBlock is trying to "battle" Youtube's very aggressive anti-adblock. Lots of updates on their subreddit.
I use uBlock Origin and have never had anything pop up.
Ublock doesn't exist on mobile so I always get an add that plays right away since Adblock Plus sucks. It's not a big deal since all I have to do is reload the video and it goes away right away.
Ublock doesn't exist on mobile
I get a popup from youtube and I click okay and it works fineI refresh the page and it doesn't pop up again on that video.
I have a feeling YouTube is just testing how much shit they can get away with and how much people will pay.
I've seen people post that YouTube's entirely disabled their video because of their adblocker
It's not as effective as the "boiling frog" (making small changes over time so people don't notice or complain, and then suddenly you're charging them three times as much and they never realized it). But it's definitely a thing companies have done.https://youtu.be/vGv4e1sH1Gg?si=qh30gKxThBi8XyNI&t=3058
There's an incredibly common sales/PR tactic.
Let's say you are selling something to a customer for $10. One day, you raise your price to $100. The customer freaks out, refuses to pay, threatens to stop buying from you forever, etc etc. So you "compromise" and agree to lower your price to $15. The customer agrees because $15 is better than $100, and at least you showed a willingness to listen. The customers win!
...except now you're charging them $5 more than you were before. At the cost of a little bit of bad PR (that will blow over because everyone is a goldfish who can't remember more than 20 minutes ago), and maybe a few customers who actually stopped using your product. But the revenue you lost is easily offset by the revenue you gained. And will continue to gain.
It's not as effective as the "boiling frog" (making small changes over time so people don't notice or complain, and then suddenly you're charging them three times as much and they never realized it). But it's definitely a thing companies have done.
I use uBlock Origin and have never had anything pop up.
I think that's price priming. You walk in and make them expect a $100 product, but low and behold, you can get it for the low low price of $15.
It's not as effective as the "boiling frog"Why do people keep leaving out the part where the frog is lobotomized first?
Why do people keep leaving out the part where the frog is lobotomized first?
If you gradually makes somebody's environment worse, they're more likely to not notice/mind than if it happens suddenly.I would still expect people reach a breaking point. Maybe by being gradual you put off getting there. Or they don't break at the same point they would have if it were sudden. But I do not expect that they would get so accustomed to it that they don't realize they're boiling. They'll still be aware that it's the way things are going before it gets that far.
See also: How willing people have been to accept Unity's new-new pricing model.