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YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if the forcr me to watch ads i will finaly leave that platform

[–] kokesh 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] thisisawayoflife 19 points 1 year ago

Peertube has a great import feature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nowhere, starting to think this shit is toxic af

here hoping youtube goes under

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lets hope the enormous mass of human knowledge is at least transferred first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bet Google would hate if we tried.

[–] TropicalDingdong 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

[–] PopShark 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yt-dlp is great for uhhh… duck acquisition

[–] TropicalDingdong 1 points 1 year ago

I want to build something into a webserver with a CLI version that starts playing from cache but lets users search

[–] killeronthecorner 10 points 1 year ago

I heard there's this stuff outside called grass.

I intend to touch it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] surewhynotlem -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And what will they have lost?

I mean, I get your point, but why would they care

[–] darthelmet 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Users who don't directly pay for a social service where user content and interaction is the business are still valuable. They share videos around, they comment, they contribute to it being the place where everything is happening. There's a reason all these tech platform companies spent so long in the honeymoon phase of monopolization. Without the network effect of people on their platform, they have nothing.

They still need a way to overall make profit from their users, but they aren't losing nothing by losing people who adblock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well said! One only needs to look at reddit for a perfect example of what happens when a platform loses it's primary contributers.

[–] Infernal_pizza 2 points 1 year ago

Is Reddit not doing ok anymore?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Social media sites live or die on their contributors & users. If they make it too obnoxious even for established people to use the site, they're going to look for alternatives.

Then the content will start to leave, and the users will follow, and then you're like, "Sorry, I've never heard of Digg".