• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    With the change in political atmosphere I suspect they’re going to get a lot more leeway to do things we don’t care for. I wonder if they could lobby to make ad blocking illegal.

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      It seems like it’s already beginning. For one, Firefox is getting blocked more and more often as being “out of date” (it’s not) while a chromium-based browser is fine. My VPN keeps getting flagged as malicious (PIA). It’s getting really irritating.

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        I use PIA a lot, But yeah a lot of VPNs are getting flagged as malicious these days, to be fair there’s a lot of malicious people doing things on them.

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          Google purposely gives you an issue when you use their search engine with a VPN. when that happens I say fuck your capcha and use duck duck go

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            Long live the Duck

            or SearX, which by proxy uses the duck and whoever else :P

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      I find it infuriating that the “free market” doesn’t let me bid on an empty ad slot on my own videos and instead makes me pay a flat rate monthly fee.

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        They tried that, it was called Google Contributor. Nobody actually put their money where their mouth was and they shut it down.

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        That’s what people are doing with sponsored segments.

        My gut is that if Peertube had an ad marketplace that content providers would flock to it. But ODYSEE already failed at monetization. And then you’d have to have some kind of guardrails in place to keep people from hosting pirated* movies for $$$.

        edit: voice dictation sucks :)

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        I’m fairly certain he just tell you if you got him doing his rambling thing.

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          Just have someone ask him what kind of ‘nasty things he thinks democrats use the internet for.’ He’ll start rattling off things that are way too specific and definitely projection.

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      Hopefully by then we have full mirrors of YT. Maybe PeerTube would be viable replacement

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        I don’t think peertube will ever truly be successful, because hosting and distributing video content is just extremely expensive as it is so large.

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        I think the biggest barrier on peer tube is the lack of easy monetization. Your average content maker is not ready to seek out a sponsorship and maintain that relationship. Vast majority of content we have out there is because people are seeking to make a few bucks.

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    I’ve take to using yt-dlp to download things I want to watch to a Plex folder, just so I can watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate a barrage of cunty adverts.

    It’s kind of a pain, but it does mean that I’m spending far less time idly scrolling through YouTube.

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    That’s fine. Youtube is either free without ads, or non-existant. Hey, did you guys know adblock is a necessity in life? It’s true.

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    For fucks sake google, give us an option JUST for YOUTUBE AD FREE…I would pay!

    Not for YouTube music though. I don’t want that bundled shit

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    fuck, this will really hurt my revanced experience. a

    oh wait no it won’t lol

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    Cancel it, get on a vpn in low cost country, subscribe with CC with no FX conversion fee…

    They will close out eventually but hey fuck Sundar the creep… treat the parasite as what it is.