Re: What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads and some don't?

Subject	Re: What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads and some don't?
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From	Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>
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Date	2016-09-09 16:06 -0400

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On 2016-09-09 13:01, Horace Algier wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 08:25:27 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
>
>>   He's not asking how to block the ads. He's wondering
>> why they vary.
>
> Don't worry about Jamie's question as I simply ignored it since he never
> understands the point. All he can do is try to insult like a fifth grader.
>
> The point *should* have been obvious to anyone who made it past sixth grade
> though, give that the SUBJECT line is:
>   "What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads".
>
> Even if the SUBJECT line didn't clue people who suggestd Adblock in that
> the question was WHAT/WHY/HOW, the OP stated in the first *and* last
> sentence:
>   "What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads?"
>
> If those clues weren't enough for people like Jamie and the other clueless
> folks who suggested Adblock as the answer to the question, my next post to
> John Doe ended with:
>   "Do you know what determines when youtube will show an ad and when they
> won't show an ad inside the video?"
>
> All John Doe could must was "why do you care?", which is a valid question,
> so I answered it, but also went back to the question by asking again:
>   "Some platforms never show ads; others constantly show ads. Why?"
>
> Mick then made a guess which platform had the most ads (which is OK to do
> but it wasn't the point) so I responded with:
>   "It doesn't matter for this question which one platform seems to have
>    all the ads because I haven't ironed out what's going on yet"
>
> Even after all that, the clueless moron Jamie chimes in that even a power
> user such as he apparently is, can use Adblock, which was never the point
> in the first place.
>
> I don't expect anything from someone who suggests Adblock as the answer to
> the question of where the ads are coming from, nor from someone who says
> the ads are coming from the youtube channel - given the fact that the ads
> are NOT on some platforms and methods while the ads are filled to the brim
> on other platforms and ads.
>
> So there's *something* interesting going on with how the ads get shoved
> onto our screens, but the data is incomplete.
>
> Does *anyone* on these three newsgroups know *how*, given the same video,
> the ad makes it to some platforms/app combinations, but not to others?
>
> Anyone?

My guess: it's in the browsers, how they are implemented for different 
platforms, different on different platforms. Eg, on my smartphone, 
there's a built-in browser named "Internet" (of course, what else? :-) 
), and I see ads on it that I never see on Firefox on this Win 8.1 machine.

Of course, that isn't an answer, but IMO it's where one should start 
looking for one.

Have a good day,

-- 
Best,
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.ca

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