Talos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years agoYouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockerswww.bleepingcomputer.commessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkYouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockerswww.bleepingcomputer.comTalos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-square@nottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoSeems fair enough, I’ve personally been freeloading for a while. Youtube is irreplacable, so there’s not much we can do.
minus-square@iopq@latte.isnot.coffeelinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoI’ve started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don’t think any website is irreplaceable
minus-square@nottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years 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-square@iopq@latte.isnot.coffeelinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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