• @gridleaf@lemmy.ml
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    01 year ago

    If you have an adblocker and/or other privacy browser plugins how do they make any money from you? If anything, you’ve wasted some bandwidth and server cycles, so you cost them money.

    I suppose an argument could be made that by adding to it you’ve created some tiny bit of content someone without adblockers might be enticed to see.

    • They make them money because:

      • they use reddit
      • spez gets some nice usage stats to show off
      • as a direct consequence, advertisers keep paying to put their ads
      • also as a direct consequence, investors’ confidence in reddit continues to recover; there’s a real possibility that, when it IPOs, it will actually go for a decent price

      Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact… then maybe it will hurt reddit’s bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube’s anti-ad stuff).

      But as it stands, especially if most of reddit’s usage is through reddit’s mobile app… I’m not really sure how you can block ads there.