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YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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okay Google, how about this. I already pay for premium, but Im too lazy to disable my adblocker for just your site, can we just call it a draw and move on?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, for some youtubers, their primary source of incomes are Patreon and In-Video Sponsorships, which can be done on Peertube. After all, we've seen some youtubers, notably The Linux Experiment, use Peertube.

The biggest hurdles here would be user base. It'd be difficult to grow peertube's userbase because most creators there rely on youtube as an income-- unlike reddit or twitter where it's mostly unpaid social media stuff, so most would be scared to move to a new platform as it'd be too detrimental to rebuild their userbase.

That and the instance's funding, which, you know...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you make the right tools, it doesn't take much to replicate video on both YouTube and PeerTube and God knows what else.

Though I can imagine YouTube demonetizing non-exclusive content as a way to counter that.

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That might run afoul of antitrust regulators, though.