Kind of reminds me of what Michael Pachter once said about ads in one of his videos.
Eventually we will reach a point where videos will simply not play until a set amount of seconds will elapse and adblockers will result in users simply stare at a blackscreen for set amount of seconds.
This is what they do in China and adblockers don't really work, I broke part of my network because a new update on their ad serving refused an android TV refused to acknowledge being connected to the internet for the handshake.
Kind of reminds me of what Michael Pachter once said about ads in one of his videos.
Eventually we will reach a point where videos will simply not play until a set amount of seconds will elapse and adblockers will result in users simply stare at a blackscreen for set amount of seconds.
This is exactly what Blip.tv pulled.
They made you wait 90 seconds, staring at a message telling you it only takes 30 seconds to sit through an ad.
Blip died.
This is what they do in China and adblockers don't really work, I broke part of my network because a new update on their ad serving refused an android TV refused to acknowledge being connected to the internet for the handshake.