YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Seems fair enough, I’ve personally been freeloading for a while. Youtube is irreplacable, so there’s not much we can do.

    • iopq@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don’t think any website is irreplaceable

      • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Twitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn’t be feasible for literal petabytes of it.