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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (59 children)

Get off of Chrome

Get off of YouTube

Get off of gmail

Get off of Google

Theres a whole big internet out there. You don't have to limit yourself to one single company.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago (13 children)

YouTube is the only one that doesn't have an alternative. I mean, there are other video hosts yes, but the content isn't there.

The creators need to start moving. Their fans will likely follow, since it's not YouTube they are there for. But I don't think anyone else offering free, large scale video hosting does much more, if even that, than what YouTube does. Even if it sucks, it's better than nothing, so there is no incentive to move for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Problem being that there is no real incentive to do so, unless PeerTube finds a way to pay content creators. Until then, switching away from YouTube means loosig their revenue stream...requiring them to take up jobs to pay the bills and eventually have less time for content creation.

Living on donations and patreon alone is hard...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

unless PeerTube finds a way to pay content creators

Google is a for-profit organization. Framasoft, which developed PeerTube, is a non-profit one. The only way to pay content creators is when people donate money to PeerTube and then PeerTube share that money with creators. Which is also difficult because there are no trackers to know internally who has more subscribers or which video has more views, etc. Internally as using a tracker, but you have to visit one by one every channel and every video to know its numbers.

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