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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

damn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So... YouTube Premium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same for Floatplane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sure, use anything that's not Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.