Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Peertube is a federated system that already handles video.

    Moderation is handled by instances with more personal mods.

    Bandwidth is handled via multiple instances & p2p protocols so viewers help distribute the load.

    I think you’re overstating how difficult youtube’s job is. A lot of that work is problems youtube creates for thsmselves by trying to squeeze their platform for more money. A federated platform doesn’t have that issue.

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        11 months ago

        Why do they even do that. Instagram, tiktok don’t share their ad revenue with their content creators.

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          11 months ago

          Not sure. But it is one of the cornerstones of YouTube. Also tiktok does pay creators.

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          11 months ago

          $10-$30/1,000 views doesn’t sound like much. Except the people who make a career out of YouTube are regularly producing 100k+ view videos. It adds up. It’s one of the things you can pick and choose to leave out of a competitor. But it is a major reason why people put videos on YouTube.