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Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

At the end of the day, its pretty clear to me that Youtube is going to lose the war on adblocking.

Lol, no, they aren’t. If they wanted to they could just throw everyone with an adblocker out. The only reason they aren’t doing this right now is not wanting to piss off their users (and some vague EU data privacy laws).

The absolute best you could accomplish against them as a user is hiding the ad, but you’d still have to wait instead of being able to skip.

Besides that: I thought about getting YouTube premium (+ music), but now they’re already jacking the prices further up. So I’ll just keep using uBlock Origin and if that no longer works cut back on my video watching time.

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chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’ll lose…they already forgot why they beat out yahoo for search.

There’s other platforms salivating at YouTube imploding.

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- Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What I meant is that they have the technical capability to lock you out when using an adblocker. They already do in a few countries (you can watch 3 videos then get kicked out). It’s not a technical issue for YouTube.
  
  There’s not a single decent platform out there to replace YouTube. Even Vimeo is tiny and can barely keep up with demand.
  
  And why should someone sink a massive amount of money into infrastructure without a way to make profit? If you try to monetize it from the start you’ll never build a large enough userbase.
  
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  - Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    They already do in a few countries (you can watch 3 videos then get kicked out)
    
    And people already figured out a way around this. They can only ever kick out adblock users temporarily, not permanently.
    
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    Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They absolutely can, it’s not that difficult. The only thing they can’t really avoid is video sharing (like a download site where you can re-host the videos), besides throwing lawyers at them.
    
    But to block you watching on youtube.com? Easy as fuck.
    
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- BURN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No there isn’t
  
  There hasn’t been a viable alternative to YouTube since the day it was released, and that’s no different today. No platform can handle to volume of data that google does. Google can barely handle that data and they own the datacenters.
  
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