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Well, it would load the video more slowly, thereby causing people to watch fewer videos. Their selections would be more thoughtful and more focused rather than frenetic and shallow.
Or people would set lots of videos to load in background tabs but only get around to watching some of them.
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That's why you don't do it, but the die-hards do.
The die-hards aren't really doing it for any practical purpose, they're just doing it to show it can be done. Mainstream media have been ignoring. them for decades now and continue to make boatloads of money.
Long before I had an adblocker, I developed "banner blindness", the real benefit my adblocker gives me is less info leaking out to the platforms. (and since ublock/umatrix is so great, also more security and better loading times, but these are cherries)
If that counts as a "practical purpose" is up to you.
They will win. They will setup DRM, or render the full site in canvas, or with wasm, or something, or requires a TPM trusted signatured in an approved web browser or some shit. The new generation will accept a limited client, because they know mostly locked down phones. So only a few will not accept it, and they will not have to care about it a single bit.
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Netflix killed Torrents. Spotify killed Napster.
Torrents are back big-time because Netflix became too annoying and video streaming too fragmented. https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-continues-to-rise-wit... https://torrentfreak.com/sharp-rise-in-piracy-rates-across-s...
Those of you defending youtube on this, have you actually tried watching anything on the site without ad blockers? It's not just that they serve you occasional, only moderately annoying ads as a subsidy for not paying, they do it in such an intrusively pervasive manner that it seems intentionally designed to make it nearly unusable. The sheer quantity of garbage interrupting your music or anything else you care to wa…
I wouldn't use Youtube to listen to music any more than I'd use my toaster to cook bacon. It could do it, but I have better tools for purpose.
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This isn't working for me on Firefox / uBlock and Ubuntu :( I don't get the popup, but the video is just black and the play button does nothing.
I have mostly same configuration except I use Fedora. Sometimes ublock doesn't work for me. I just open the video in a temporary container it works without any issues. Have you tried this approach?
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They also get all of your information/habits/etc.. It's pretty sweet being an all powerful tech company.
Which has what value, exactly? I see the value being for lining up the ads you're most likely to be relevant to you. It increases the amount they can charge advertisers, and you're seeing ads that are more relevant to you. Is there some other value in having this information?
in the aggregate, at the population level? very valuable. especially changes over time.
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I just don’t understand why people don’t use Invidious instead of paying money to these greedy bastards
Because (a) it's not that widely known and (b) Google is trying to block it [1], so many instances are broken now, which isn't a great experience. [1]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3915
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Well, it would load the video more slowly, thereby causing people to watch fewer videos. Their selections would be more thoughtful and more focused rather than frenetic and shallow.
Or people would set lots of videos to load in background tabs but only get around to watching some of them.