YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined

  • Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    It feels like we should have solved this issue a decade ago with bittorrent.

    A website is just a frontend for a fileserver, so why are we not distributing these files across the globe, where we all volunteer a bit of storage and bandwidth to services we want to use.

    Websites really need be nothing more than indexes and trackers which serve up a list of peers who are hosting the files we want.

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      1 year ago

      How would the content creators get rewarded in that system? Some of the YouTube ad money goes to the channel the ad is shown on.

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      1 year ago

      It’s harder to profit from that, so obviously that’s not the direction things went.

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          1 year ago

          Youtube itself might not be making a profit, but I double Google as a whole isn’t by having YouTube. They keep you in their ecosystem longer, and that’s good for them regardless of if you’re watching ads.

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      1 year ago

      Because have you ever stumbled upon dead torrents? I see this more as a backup method to relieve the load rather than the only one.

      (Wish I had a perma-online SBC to seed my torrents btw)