YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

wolco2 wrote: post #23

draugadrotten wrote: post #5

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> it's kind of a shitty move by Google. It's kind of business as usual for Google. Why would anyone expect them to be kind and generous suddenly when they have consistently for years pulled the rug out underneath previosly-free services. (or killed them off completely https://killedbygoogle.com/ ) gmail subscriptions are next, just wait and see.

Gmail It's the one service easily replaced. If they go this route the internet will be a more decentralized place

Post by labawi » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 11:31 PM UTC

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #542

labawi wrote: post #387

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There was a time when downloading movies took hours, or even days. Nowadays, you can stream via popcorn time for basically free¹. As for CPU, storage - I don't think 10+ different formats at extreme compression are a hard requirement. Youtube ads are good, as people will have incentive to use peertube and similar. ¹ You need some seeds, but they don't need Tbps pipes.

>There was a time when downloading movies took hours, or even days. Nowadays, you can stream via popcorn time for basically free¹. And a willingness to steal...