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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge (gizmodo.com)
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Introducing.. PeerTube. Bandwidth is not a problem because if a video gets popular people will be watching it and therefore sharing it to their peers Infrastructure costs don't matter because channels would be on small instances That would not cost much to run, etc. A single company need not pay millions of dollars to host something like this when each individual who wants to be a content creator can put up a few dollars a month like maybe four or five and do it. That way the cost is distributed and not a burden on one entity.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    The issue with PeerTube, is monetization.

    You need to be able to tell anchors that draw people in and make their living from YouTube like LinusTechTips, Phillip DeFranco, and MrBeast why PeerTube is the platform for them... and losing all the money YouTube gives them is a big problem in any argument (as much as they might not like some of YouTube's policies themselves).

    Also, storage costs are going to explode if PeerTube gets popular and maintains the "anyone can upload in 4k" that YouTube allows. Linus did a video about how expensive 4k video is compared to the 1080p videos that have been dominate in the platform for most of the platform's life, and how that increased cost has contributed to discussions of changes (at the time) which have evidently manifested as adblocking and promoting premium (speculatively, this is in part because Google feels regulars are going to hurt its advertising business badly and they need to get subscribers that could keep the platform afloat -- going back to "old models" before the Google advertising money machine made the Internet "free").

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