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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[–] hyper 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.

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

peertube exists

it's in development, their new roadmap looks nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The difficulty isn't in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.

Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does this kill their platform if there's no competition?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Let them keep this shit up and you'll find out.

Necessity is the mother of invention.