Talos to [email protected]English • 1 year agoYouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockerswww.bleepingcomputer.commessage-square137arrow-up1159arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareLibre ExtremistlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoThat’s impossible or at least very difficult, right now. Video content is very expensive. LBRY is the only feasible option.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoOr people could just host their own peertube instance with banner ads instead of preroll/mid video ads and maybe add a donation/subscription system.
minus-square🅵🅴🅳🅴🆁🅰🅻🅰🅻🅸🅴🅽🆂🅼🆄🅶🅶🅻🅴🆁linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year ago add a donation/subscription system. At this point you could just subscribe to YouTube.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoBut YouTube is privately owned and not an open source platform that each creator has full control over
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoNot wanting to pay youtube does not mean not wanting to pay creators.
That’s impossible or at least very difficult, right now. Video content is very expensive. LBRY is the only feasible option.
Or people could just host their own peertube instance with banner ads instead of preroll/mid video ads and maybe add a donation/subscription system.
At this point you could just subscribe to YouTube.
But YouTube is privately owned and not an open source platform that each creator has full control over
Not wanting to pay youtube does not mean not wanting to pay creators.