Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do? Are they afraid of pushing youtube down the cliff?
I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can’t block videos from ad-block users if you can’t tell which users are using adblock and which are not.
It’s quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.