▲ 757 ▼ YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer (www.androidpolice.com) submitted 2 years ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 337 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 20 points 2 years ago (2 children) But I hate the service, it's the only service around though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] mjs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) There's a reason why they are the only ones. It's very hard to scale a platform to YouTube scale. Like insanely hard and very expensive. The only other players that could take over are Meta and maybe Microsoft. Not sure if they would be any better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I've been thinking that pornhub might make a good competition if they made a safe for work version. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You hear that Texas? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago There's others that are at that scale. Amazon, Valve, battle.net, Netflix, pornhub, CloudFlare, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent [+] focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 child) lol you hate the service so it makes it ok for you to steal? K good sirs, keep on pirating permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] webadict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Is pirating stealing? Nothing was taken from YouTube. You could say it's unauthorized access, or unauthorized duplication of data, but none of that leaves YouTube down any data. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google. In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what's happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mjs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) There's a reason why they are the only ones. It's very hard to scale a platform to YouTube scale. Like insanely hard and very expensive. The only other players that could take over are Meta and maybe Microsoft. Not sure if they would be any better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I've been thinking that pornhub might make a good competition if they made a safe for work version. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You hear that Texas? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago There's others that are at that scale. Amazon, Valve, battle.net, Netflix, pornhub, CloudFlare, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I've been thinking that pornhub might make a good competition if they made a safe for work version. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You hear that Texas? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago You hear that Texas? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago There's others that are at that scale. Amazon, Valve, battle.net, Netflix, pornhub, CloudFlare, to name a few. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 child) lol you hate the service so it makes it ok for you to steal? K good sirs, keep on pirating permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] webadict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Is pirating stealing? Nothing was taken from YouTube. You could say it's unauthorized access, or unauthorized duplication of data, but none of that leaves YouTube down any data. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google. In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what's happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] webadict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Is pirating stealing? Nothing was taken from YouTube. You could say it's unauthorized access, or unauthorized duplication of data, but none of that leaves YouTube down any data. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google. In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what's happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google. In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what's happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what's happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future. permalink fedilink source parent