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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

What's the traffic on invidious? Like, while I don't necessarily agree with the ad-block-block, the profit motive makes sense given their ubiquity. But are there really enough users of alternate YouTube frontends that Google is capturing any meaningful profit? Especially when developer hours are expensive and could be used elsewhere on more valuable projects?

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 9 hours ago

Honestly, dev hours are probably a pittance compared to the potential revenue of more ads watched and/or additional YT prem subscriptions.