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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
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[–] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This will definetly be a shot in the foot for Google, the beginning of YouTube's downfall

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only cloud hosting providers can provide hosting for themselves as cheaply as google. Microsoft and Amazon (except through prime video and twitch) have shown no interest in entering the fray. The downfall will only come through antitrust.

[–] r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federation will be the only real option considering the massive storage and bandwidth requirements. Even then, once an instance starts to grow, they'll have to come up with some type of monetization strategy.

Even a low population instance will likely need many terabytes of storage.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't see how federation makes economic sense for video serving/hosting. To do it economicaly you need to have local data centers with peering agreements with local ISPs and good deals for transit. Only big data companies (Google) and huge or specialized self hosts(daily motion, Facebook), can really do it.

Reddit and Vimeo were stupid for hosting video on cloud services for that reason. Reddit wouldn't have been in such an economic crunch if they weren't burning money by serving video on the cloud.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I suspect in the long run it will be doable due to advancements in bandwidth, computing power, disk space and compression efficiency but it's probably more than a decade away.

And even then it might be the case that it's only viable to do 1080p while the big guns can do 8k at 120fps.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Finally some fucking space for competitors

[–] sour@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

beginning

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope PeerTube gets better

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Please yes, it needs a lot of better.

[–] corbin@infosec.pub -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The downfall of YouTube is creators being paid more for their work?

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

They don't. In fact they get demonitised more and more easily for completely bullshit reasons. The majority of youtubers get paid through Patreon and in video sponsorship rather than from youtube itself.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, these companies work exactly like that