Comment on YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers

einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And what will they have lost?

  I mean, I get your point, but why would they care

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  • darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Users who don’t directly pay for a social service where user content and interaction is the business are still valuable. They share videos around, they comment, they contribute to it being the place where everything is happening. There’s a reason all these tech platform companies spent so long in the honeymoon phase of monopolization. Without the network effect of people on their platform, they have nothing.

    They still need a way to overall make profit from their users, but they aren’t losing nothing by losing people who adblock.

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well said! One only needs to look at reddit for a perfect example of what happens when a platform loses it’s primary contributers.

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      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is Reddit not doing ok anymore?

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Social media sites live or die on their contributors & users. If they make it too obnoxious even for established people to use the site, they’re going to look for alternatives.

    Then the content will start to leave, and the users will follow, and then you’re like, “Sorry, I’ve never heard of Digg”.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And where will you go?

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  • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Peertube has a great import feature.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

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    • PopShark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yt-dlp is great for uhhh… duck acquisition

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I want to build something into a webserver with a CLI version that starts playing from cache but lets users search

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I heard there’s this stuff outside called grass.

    I intend to touch it.

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  • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    peertube

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