YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers - eviltoast
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    I would love it but I don’t see it.

    It costs an enormous amount of money to host video content, doubly so when you need to replicate it across servers. I have never seen another company come close to usurping them.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, The problem is, the price on YouTube is so incredibly expensive because we have to pay for a million script kiddies worth of useless videos to be uploaded and permanently stored everyday.

      If someone made a competing system where you had to pay a small amount to host a video and then it turned around and paid you once you’ve got enough eyeballs that would be a far more sustainable model and cause people to police their old underperforming content.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I agree. We don’t get a new YouTube, we get whatever comes after YouTube—some new modality.