I agree with every single point youve made. Except
There’s not really any serious competition, people would still watch it.
If youtube stared pulling a reddit and implementing changes that users felt offended enough by many people would probably do what we are doing now. And find a decentralized platform like peertube or lemmy. Obviously reddit and youtube are not going anywhere but its still competiton even if its not “serious”. a few hundred thousand users is alot in terms of profit.
Just because they’ve been dumb with privacy laws, doesn’t mean they have to do that to find adblockers.
Google has all of the cards. like you said forced logins, drm, in stream adverts are all 1000% in our near future. I just think that before we actually get there we shouldnt roll over and take the abuse.
Genuinely appreciate the discourse on this, but im slightly frustrated that i simply implied that it “seems illegal” and I have multiple people explaining that its not illegal, they dont need to x and y to detect adblock, and that google has all the power. IM AWARE i just wish we could hold them accountable for the MANY infractions on privacy that theyve been guiltly of in the past, and continue to be, and see little to no repercussions.
What they’re doing is likely illegal in a number of locations. Unfortunately, they don’t have to do the illegal things to catch people, they kinda went overboard.
I think the most prudent thing would be to work out better monetization for Peertube and work out Peertube desktop clients and some form of buddy system to lock in backing up content. Youtube is already strangling the smaller content providers. We need some kind of open advertising market that links content creators with advertisers. Nothing like leaving the platform to rot as a repercussion :)
An open source adverts market acutually sounds like an insane, yet viable solution ive never considered. Not only would it be benefitial to users. But the adverts themselves would save money based on the fact that large corps fake advert data to bolster the price on their platform. curious did you come up with that or was this an idea thats been floating aroud?
I’ve not heard of it from anywhere else, But I wouldn’t be too terribly surprised to find projects for it. I haven’t really looked, but it seems to me like the next natural outcome.
It’ll probably be rife for abuse, and require heavy policing maybe light opsec. It might need the protection of a real company in the form of a non-profit at least.
I agree with every single point youve made. Except
If youtube stared pulling a reddit and implementing changes that users felt offended enough by many people would probably do what we are doing now. And find a decentralized platform like peertube or lemmy. Obviously reddit and youtube are not going anywhere but its still competiton even if its not “serious”. a few hundred thousand users is alot in terms of profit.
Google has all of the cards. like you said forced logins, drm, in stream adverts are all 1000% in our near future. I just think that before we actually get there we shouldnt roll over and take the abuse.
Genuinely appreciate the discourse on this, but im slightly frustrated that i simply implied that it “seems illegal” and I have multiple people explaining that its not illegal, they dont need to x and y to detect adblock, and that google has all the power. IM AWARE i just wish we could hold them accountable for the MANY infractions on privacy that theyve been guiltly of in the past, and continue to be, and see little to no repercussions.
What they’re doing is likely illegal in a number of locations. Unfortunately, they don’t have to do the illegal things to catch people, they kinda went overboard.
I think the most prudent thing would be to work out better monetization for Peertube and work out Peertube desktop clients and some form of buddy system to lock in backing up content. Youtube is already strangling the smaller content providers. We need some kind of open advertising market that links content creators with advertisers. Nothing like leaving the platform to rot as a repercussion :)
An open source adverts market acutually sounds like an insane, yet viable solution ive never considered. Not only would it be benefitial to users. But the adverts themselves would save money based on the fact that large corps fake advert data to bolster the price on their platform. curious did you come up with that or was this an idea thats been floating aroud?
I’ve not heard of it from anywhere else, But I wouldn’t be too terribly surprised to find projects for it. I haven’t really looked, but it seems to me like the next natural outcome.
It’ll probably be rife for abuse, and require heavy policing maybe light opsec. It might need the protection of a real company in the form of a non-profit at least.