YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Honestly curious if they’d ever consider that, considering how popular watching youtube on the phone is, so I could see them trying to get even desktop users to use an app to prevent 3rd party launchers
If they did though, it would probably cause at least a decent number of people to try to find alternatives
At the end of the day, the main way the fediverse gets new users is the big tech companies screwing up
The only problem with YouTube alternatives like peertube is video is it’s a LOT harder to store/stream than just text with occasional images (especially if it’s higher res like is common these days)
I would love for it to catch on, but honestly don’t see how it could for any real percentage of people
That beeing said, if YouTube ever messes up to that extent, I’ll be one of the first out the door
Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.
It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.
Honestly curious if they’d ever consider that, considering how popular watching youtube on the phone is, so I could see them trying to get even desktop users to use an app to prevent 3rd party launchers
If they did though, it would probably cause at least a decent number of people to try to find alternatives
At the end of the day, the main way the fediverse gets new users is the big tech companies screwing up
More for fedi :)
The only problem with YouTube alternatives like peertube is video is it’s a LOT harder to store/stream than just text with occasional images (especially if it’s higher res like is common these days)
I would love for it to catch on, but honestly don’t see how it could for any real percentage of people
That beeing said, if YouTube ever messes up to that extent, I’ll be one of the first out the door