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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] jasep@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

they make money from harvesting your data then showing you ads based on that data

That's part of it, yes. But they can also sell ad companies demographic data - males aged 25-44 clicked on this or looked at that for example.

Google probably makes more like $50 per user per year on average

I highly doubt the number is that low.