Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 hours agoSorry, are you saying you want youtube to be a private site that is subscription only?
Because, if you think this is a gotcha, you probably won’t have a good time. And the site itself would die as creators would have no market to really target.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Fine with me. Youtube needs some decent competition.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I assume you are a hardcore “The God of Capitalism Will Prevail” person but… that isn’t how it works.
Youtube is an insanely expensive service to operate. That is why basically every other attempt failed miserably. Google is able to offset the cost due to their datacenter requirements as well as being able to sell those targeted ads. Even for google it is highly suspected to be a loss leader.
It is like people forgot that microsoft/azure tried to make their own twitch… and it failed horribly even though it had definitively better tech.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
So? Both options work great for me.
If a good alternative to Youtube is created, then I’ll use that. Great.
If a good alternative to Youtube never arises, and Youtube is constantly enshittified further, that’s great too. The human race deserves to suffer, so this option is also great.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge