YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker - eviltoast

YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”

    • Kayn
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      68 months ago

      How does this kill their platform if there’s no competition?

        • Kayn
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          68 months ago

          The difficulty isn’t in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.

          Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.