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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.

[–] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

peertube exists

it's in development, their new roadmap looks nice

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 6 points 11 months 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.