• edoorklep@lemmy.world
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      Got it in the Netherlands a few days ago. With ublock origin on Firefox. So I switched to freetube with the subscriptions I actually watch.

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        I am also in the Netherlands using uBlock Origin and Firefox and am not getting it. So my best guess is they’re doing A/B testing and people are being randomly selected to see how they’ll respond to something like this.

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        I’ve been using free tube but lately it’s been running pretty poorly. Which insidious instance do you use?

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      Browser and plugins don’t matter, this is being rolled out in waves. People are getting this on all browsers, with or without ad blockers

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          It doesn’t have to be. This could be how YouTube dies.

          Websites are nothing without users. We have the power to stop using websites that pull this shit and promote new websites that don’t.

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              Storage and bandwidth are practically free though. Only last mile bandwidth is expensive, and that is paid for by the end user.

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                Practically and actually are two different things.

                Just because serving the video costs a fraction of a cent doesn’t mean you can round that down to zero, especially when you are serving billions of video views a day.

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                  I did say practically free.

                  IRL Example: I host several videos across my various sites. I pay $99/mo for a CDN. Said CDN caches my videos and does not charge for bandwidth usage. Therefore you can technically argue that I pay $99/mo for X visitors. In actuality , the CDN caches all my content. It also provides DDOS protection, a firewall, and other advanced features. That is what I pay $99/mo for.

                  My cost to distribute the video is $99 + my hosting bill ($50-$200/mo depending on backend jobs) / number of views. This would be true if the video has 1 view or a billion (most of the ones I host have had “millions” of views)

                  The video can be 360p or 8k. CDN does not care. Mine are 4k.

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                    You did say practically, but I’m saying that practically is still a cost. You are still paying money to serve your videos.

                    People post on YouTube because they don’t have to pay the server costs for videos. If you want to get the video makers to pay the server costs, feel free. However, given their thin margins, they probably won’t.

                    Also, it sounds like your CDN is betting your videos won’t routinely go viral and get billions of views. If that happened, I would expect your monthly bill to go up.

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            Cynically, it won’t kill youtube, either. There are no alternatives. They have a lot of leverage to shittify it.

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              And a lot of users who just doesn’t care enough to do anything drastic about it. We already saw it with reddit, and twitter to a point. The userbase on the internet is so huge now that the people actually being aware and caring about privacy and non-commercialisation are a tiny minority. Companies can easily still make a profit on the vast majority of people who will uncritically consume.

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              The paradox of the internet is that people want everything:

              • in one place
              • free of charge
              • anonymous

              but don’t want everything:

              • owned by one company
              • supported by ads
              • full of toxic assholes