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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)
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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 43 points 11 months ago (44 children)

What Google seems to forget or simply not care about is I can always just... leave.
I used reddit a lot more than I use YouTube.
If enough viewers and content creators were to jump ship, they'd scramble to change their tune.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Exactly, I had people tell me that we should support YouTube, because it costs money and if we don't it will disappear.

I would celebrate the day it would happen, YouTube is actually the reason we don't have much competition there. They used their position and Google monopoly in other areas to establish this monopoly.

[–] wheelie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's creators out there running a non YouTube channel in parallel, mostly on Odysee. Good to see an alternative out there.

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I just looked up Odysee. They use Google AdSense on their site, so really all you’re getting is a bad YouTube

[–] wheelie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Right enough. They're also owned by Google! Probably not a good alternative then. PeerTube any good?

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw, Google doesn’t own Odysee https://twitter.com/LBRYcom/status/1321862776780980225

[–] wheelie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

They probably do smell.

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

I’ve heard of PeerTube, but haven’t looked into it yet

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only one I know of is Nebula, and I only know of it because of ads. Ironically, ads on YouTube.

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