YouTube's crackdown on tools that block advertising continues with server-side ad injection. The developer of...
  • YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers, integrating ads directly into videos to make them indistinguishable from the main content.
  • This new method complicates ad blocking, including tools like SponsorBlock, which now face challenges in accurately identifying and skipping sponsored segments.
  • The feature is currently in testing and not widely rolled out, with YouTube encouraging users to subscribe to YouTube Premium for an ad-free experience.
    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      81·
      13 days ago

      I don’t know why you’d go with a crypto scheme if what you actually need is video.

      Peertube is federated just like lemmy, so it doesn’t have to cook the planet to achieve decentralisation.

      • androogee (they/she)@midwest.socialEnglish
        41·
        13 days ago

        I’ve heard that some versions of the Blockchain are not based on computing power and therefore are not nearly as awful re: emissions. But I don’t really know much about it so I decided to look into Odysee.

        Instead I found out all about how the company that created the protocol was blasted out of existence by the SEC for selling unregistered securities & the website is full of Nazis because they don’t do anything about fucking Nazis.

        Never did reach a conclusion about the blockchain thing. Kinda stopped caring. Sounds like a clusterfuck.

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          31·
          13 days ago

          Proof of stake is what it’s called, but then it’s even more of a ponzi scheme because you have to buy in. Like they’re literally recreating coconut island.

          Also nobody seems to actually be doing it, possibly for exactly that reason. It’s just a green-washing promise of an idea.

          Federation and crypto are two completely opposite philosophies of decentralisation.

          Crypto is based on zero-trust, which sounds cool and edgy if you’re 15, but in practice it turns out that the people drawn to a zero trust system are untrustworthy. It’s not surprising that it’s full of Nazis.

          Federation is designed around trust, which is the way our meatspace social networks actually work, and I think it’s the only reasonable way forward.

      • hornedfiendEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Fair enough. I completely forgot about peertube. Been using newpipe predominantly and odysee was the first alternative that came to mind.

        Thanks for reminding me about peer tube. A client recommendation would be great. I’ve used p2play.

        Edit: I actually looked into the whole odysee debacle and it’s disgusting,so I will try to use peertube (newpipe also supports it,but,again,completely forgot about it).