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.
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.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
And people already figured out a way around this. They can only ever kick out adblock users temporarily, not permanently.
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.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Historically has never been “easy as fuck”. this isn’t their first attempt at stopping ad blockers. They can manage to do it temporarily, but ad blockers always figure out a way to get past any blocks put in place. We’ve seen this play out on the internet many many times in the past. Ad blockers have always won.