Upvote!
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads

www.androidpolice.com

external-link
message-square
410
fedilink
607
external-link

YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads

www.androidpolice.com

boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
message-square
410
fedilink
YouTube is trying server-level ad injection to deter freeloaders
  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    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?

    • invalid_display_name@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      11 months ago

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

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        11 months ago

        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).

        • invalid_display_name@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          damn

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      11 months ago

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

      • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        11 months ago

        So… YouTube Premium.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 months ago

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

      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

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

        • mlc894@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            11 months ago

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

        • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 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.
      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Same for Floatplane

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          Sure, use anything that’s not Youtube.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 2.41K users / day
  • 9.42K users / week
  • 17.8K users / month
  • 37.6K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 69.9K subscribers
  • 7.97K Posts
  • 257K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.6
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org