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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
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The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most of their fans won't follow. Convenience is a powerful thing.

There also really aren't other options. Anyone being able to sign up and host video for free is an extremely expensive service to provide if people take you up on it.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If enough creators moved, the fans would follow.

Unfortunately, the creators won't move to a platform that doesn't have users to watch them. And users won't bother with a platform that doesn't have creators to watch.

While this can be overcome... Yeah, I think googie will need to fork up yootoob a lot more before enough on both sides are willing to jump ship en masse

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Some fans would follow. If 100% of their subscribed channels moved tomorrow, 90% still wouldn't move to the new platform for a meaningful length of time.