YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.
  • zweieuro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    From a technological perspective I think this arms race is very interesting to watch and observe.

    From a user perspective, I hope that enough people get fed up by this that they leave YouTube and the creators that can currently only create on YouTube, since all of their users are there, go somewhere else with their users.

    I can dream…

    • jBlight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I feel you man and I agree. Im still patiently waiting and hoping everyone switches from reddit to Lemmy

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      The users ain’t gonna leave until the content does and these ads don’t really affect the content creators negatively. And it’s a massive undertaking to create a new host from the ground up that can compete with YouTube’s scale.

    • ArgentRaven@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      It’s a problem of scale. If a platform takes off, the site slows or goes down. They need to invest more on hosting, which drives up the prices. Then people leave because it’s not reliable, and the company is left with a huge bill.

      Maybe it’d be better to have multiple video sites with their own niche categories, instead of a one stop shop. That might be easier to maintain.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Something like creators self hosting their content and the videos get shared with some sort of federated community… Hmmmm 🤔

        Neh, it will never work.