Comment on ‘Goal is viewer addiction’: Email from YouTube employee show company’s mission

• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My instinct would be to say, yeah, almost certainly. Not necessarily from any ads in the shorts themselves, but I’m guessing you can extract a lot more from a user who constantly engages in frenzied bursts of dopamine chasing, than one who consumes slower, longer, less frequent content. Even if the longer content technically has more ads.

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• arcine@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk if they generate any money from users with adblockers like me.

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