wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

  • HexesofVexes
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    252 years ago

    I think it’s less enforceable than they think - every system someone sets up will eventually be circumvented.

    It’ll be a pain for a few months, or we’ll see a federated alt pick up creators.

    • @state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
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      312 years ago

      To be honest, YouTube would be the hardest thing to replace. And if they ever stream ads from the same URLs as content I don’t see a blocker being overly successful.

      • @Rotten_potato@lemmy.world
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        132 years ago

        I disagree, something like Sponsorblock is working quite well already for ads embedded in the video and unless YouTube makes serious sacrifices in UX I don’t see how they could prevent this.

      • @yaaaaayPancakes@lemmy.world
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        62 years ago

        They already do stream ads from the same urls. It’s why a pihole can’t block youtube ads.

        But you can tell what’s coming, since apps like SmartTubeNext and Revanced can skip them.

        It’ll probably just be a cat and mouse game, as it always has been.

      • @yaaaaayPancakes@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        They already do stream ads from the same urls. It’s why a pihole can’t block youtube ads.

        But you can tell what’s coming, since apps like SmartTubeNext and Revanced can skip them.

        It’ll probably just be a cat and mouse game, as it always has been.

    • Johanno
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      52 years ago

      There are already open source Alternatives. But not federated.

      • @Onurb@lemmy.world
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        102 years ago

        What about peertube? Since Twitter -> Mastadon | Reddit -> Lemmy Why not Youtube -> Peertube next :D

        • wekeys
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          52 years ago

          @Onurb @Johanno with the urge of disabling adblocker it won’t take long i think…
          But when YouTube does bad things, users tends to go on Odysee despite PeerTube 😞

        • Pirate
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          12 years ago

          There are tools to mirror YouTube content to YouTube as well. I’m considering adding some to my peertube instance just in case things start going down.

    • @hydra@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      Replacing a megacorp service is only possible when the stars align and said megacorp makes a fuckup so big users start jumping and these users are still a tiny speck compared to the total userbase. Still I hope Reddit dies slowly.