▲ 3 ▼ YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking (www.androidauthority.com) submitted 3 years ago by stefenauris@pawb.social [M] to c/tech@pawb.social 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments okay Google, how about this. I already pay for premium, but Im too lazy to disable my adblocker for just your site, can we just call it a draw and move on?
[–] stefenauris@pawb.social [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) this could be peertube's time to shine! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] savvywolf@pawb.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) I'd love for that to be the case, but realistically many Youtubers see Youtube as a revenue source (which is a terrible idea, because Google blatantly doesn't care about them), which Peertube can't really replicate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 0 points 3 years ago To be fair, for some youtubers, their primary source of incomes are Patreon and In-Video Sponsorships, which can be done on Peertube. After all, we've seen some youtubers, notably The Linux Experiment, use Peertube. The biggest hurdles here would be user base. It'd be difficult to grow peertube's userbase because most creators there rely on youtube as an income-- unlike reddit or twitter where it's mostly unpaid social media stuff, so most would be scared to move to a new platform as it'd be too detrimental to rebuild their userbase. That and the instance's funding, which, you know... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) I'd love for that to be the case, but realistically many Youtubers see Youtube as a revenue source (which is a terrible idea, because Google blatantly doesn't care about them), which Peertube can't really replicate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 0 points 3 years ago To be fair, for some youtubers, their primary source of incomes are Patreon and In-Video Sponsorships, which can be done on Peertube. After all, we've seen some youtubers, notably The Linux Experiment, use Peertube. The biggest hurdles here would be user base. It'd be difficult to grow peertube's userbase because most creators there rely on youtube as an income-- unlike reddit or twitter where it's mostly unpaid social media stuff, so most would be scared to move to a new platform as it'd be too detrimental to rebuild their userbase. That and the instance's funding, which, you know... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 0 points 3 years ago To be fair, for some youtubers, their primary source of incomes are Patreon and In-Video Sponsorships, which can be done on Peertube. After all, we've seen some youtubers, notably The Linux Experiment, use Peertube. The biggest hurdles here would be user base. It'd be difficult to grow peertube's userbase because most creators there rely on youtube as an income-- unlike reddit or twitter where it's mostly unpaid social media stuff, so most would be scared to move to a new platform as it'd be too detrimental to rebuild their userbase. That and the instance's funding, which, you know... permalink fedilink source parent