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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 4 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It has been THE viteo platform for literally decades. There is so much content there; it would be a tremendous effort to direct that elsewhere.

And that other site would quickly succumb to storage and bandwidth costs. What options could exist?

[–] Tixanou@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only option left would be PeerTube if it federated with every other PeerTube instance by default, like Lemmy

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wishfull thinking. Sadly the truth.
It's nearly impossible to have that high of a federation and preventing a centralization to not loose any videos (except if the creators chose so).

[–] Tixanou@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

damn

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Nebula is interesting. You pay for a subscription, which funds creators and platform costs.

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So... YouTube Premium.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Yup, but no Google tracking, but they seem to do other tracking.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same for Floatplane

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, use anything that's not Youtube.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a survivable approach. Except: has anyone heard of it? I hadn't.

[–] mlc894@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s owned and populated by history and science/engineering YouTubers, so if you’re not usually watching that side of YouTube, you might not find much on Nebula for you.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

On the flipside, that's most of what I watch, so I hear about it all the time.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The youtubers that are on nebula place ads of it on almost every one of their videos.

If you haven't heard about nebula it's because:

You don't follow any nebula creators.
You use sponsor block.