So, what happens if you use an adblocker? Yeah, sure, adverts won’t play, but your data won’t be collected, as well.
Now, most people have their data collected on the internet. Since, actually, you’d be surprised at how many people don’t use adblockers.
Though, of course, the minute someone finds out that with a click of a button or two they can stop all ads from ever playing. They usually make those clicks.
Which is good. Or so they think …
What these people don’t realize is that by doing this they prevent revenue from being generated by ads. For everybody. And by the end of this article, I aim to show you that “everybody” also includes you.
So you might think you know the ad business pretty well, huh? People who run a platform get paid by the advertiser to host an ad and the advertiser gets paid by the customer who buys the product. Right?
Well, the internet added two extra layers to this pie.
The first change is the addition of a middle man. The YouTuber that you like, you know, the one who makes you laugh.
Yeah, that guy.
He gets paid now because he gets you to use the platform where the ads are shown.
But there’s one more, shadowy agent behind all of this madness. The companies that collect your data and then sells it to advertisers who then use it to make sure ads of things that you might actually buy are shown to you.
The information that you’re a girl on a diet who buys goth clothing is valuable. It’s worth money to people who sell diet products or goth clothing. They want to show YOU their ads. Not the Ken doll type who spends 90% of his time taking selfies.
So, this is actually built into YouTube. For example, I use wix.com to build websites because I saw an ad for it on YouTube. I was shown it because I had searched for videos on website design. YouTube then recorded that data and used it to pitch me a product they knew I was very likely to be interested in.
That’s why YouTube makes a lot of money, advertisers love them. Well, yeah, that and it’s the most popular video uploading site on the internet.
Ever seen an ad and thought, “it’s a coincidence that they would advertise that to me”? It wasn’t a coincidence.
So where do you come in all of this? Well, it’s your data, isn’t it? It belongs to you. You own it and yet, people are collecting it and selling it. By the way, it’s a billion dollar industry. We’re talking a lot of money, here.
And, you’re being cut out. Obviously, you’re not entitled to much but it is some and it is yours.
This is one of the reasons why people use adblockers. Not just to block ads but to keep companies from profiting off of their data.
I have a better solution. Imagine being paid for your data. Imagine an adblocker that cuts you in on this action.
Well, I’d make it but I have no idea how so I went out and found one that somebody already made instead.
I present unto thee: The adblocker that pays you
It also works on a referral system since I imagine that in order for this to work they need enough people to use it. So, they’re willing to pay you if you recruit others, too.
My referral code is: 和真1
It seems to use your Facebook name for your referral code so since mine is Kazuma, that’s what I get.
