Talos@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockerswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkYouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockerswww.bleepingcomputer.comTalos@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarenottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoSeems fair enough, I’ve personally been freeloading for a while. Youtube is irreplacable, so there’s not much we can do.
minus-squareiopq@latte.isnot.coffeelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI’ve started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don’t think any website is irreplaceable
minus-squarenottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoTwitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn’t be feasible for literal petabytes of it.
minus-squareiopq@latte.isnot.coffeelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt would have be basically torrent hosted
Seems fair enough, I’ve personally been freeloading for a while. Youtube is irreplacable, so there’s not much we can do.
I’ve started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don’t think any website is irreplaceable
Twitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn’t be feasible for literal petabytes of it.
It would have be basically torrent hosted