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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I know there's a significant part of the market that'd just say yeah, fuck it, i'll pay for ~~Redtube~~ ~~Youtube Red~~ Youtube Premium, but there's also a significant part of it, where a lot of people would rather just stop watching stuff entirely.

It's just like Hulu back in the days. You'd have no choice but to pay for a premium tier, just to have 14 unskippable ads forced down your throat, all in a span of a 19 minute long tv episode. I stopped paying after that month and resorted to piracy.

Piracy is always a service issue, except now it's legitimately going to harm individual creators, who have just about everything to lose, rathen that a rotten husk of some corporation, that's going to print free money, no matter what you do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's the joke

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