I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
I think video platforms should be hosted by the government, like public libraries. They are very difficult to run at a profitable rate, and YouTube is basically a monopoly in this space. But it has an incredible value to society.
The problem is that we have tried this, there was a period of time when during the Great depression, in order to keep the Arts alive, the Government tried hosting stages for performers to enact plays on.
This did not work because the government kept trying to encourage that the plays promote a piece of propaganda that made the US look good or would punish plays that were accused of showing anti-American sentiment.
Imagine if government did Run YouTube, what would happen the second a Donald Trump got in office?
Suddenly only the alt right are allowed to make videos.
What we need is something like fediverse, but for online videos. Something where the host is an entirely neutral party that does not moderate the videos unless required to in order to comply with law enforcement or in instances where action against the video is obvious, such as a call to arms or if someone starts hosting Kiddie porn
That’s Peertube right? I haven’t used it.
That’s pretty much the problem with every federated service right now 😬
Even if it was used it’s unlikely Peertube could compete with YouTube due to the nature of storage space required for HD videos.
To that they will immediately answer - but do you want all your youtube habits to be in the hands of the government?
Is that or a private company. There’s no winning lol
The company anonymises your data and sells it to get the most value out of it.
The state on the other hand will eventually use it to spy on you and controll you if necessary.
I feel like a lot of people don’t realize this, keeping your data a secret is these ad platform’s top priority, knowing what you like (for highly targeted ads) while others don’t is one of the biggest ways they make money
They already are
People out there not really understanding the cooperative roles of the state, government and capitial under capitialism to reinforce bougerois rule.
Yes if it’s good government. Of course there’s problem of getting good government that won’t abuse anything.