• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do? Are they afraid of pushing youtube down the cliff?

    I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

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      1 year ago

      What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

      It’s a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can’t block videos from ad-block users if you can’t tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

      I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

      It’s quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.