YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”

  • hyper@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition

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        1 year ago

        peertube exists

        it’s in development, their new roadmap looks nice

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          1 year ago

          The difficulty isn’t in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.

          Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.

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        1 year ago

        Let them keep this shit up and you’ll find out.

        Necessity is the mother of invention.