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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it(mashable.com)

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Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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It feels like we should have solved this issue a decade ago with bittorrent.

A website is just a frontend for a fileserver, so why are we not distributing these files across the globe, where we all volunteer a bit of storage and bandwidth to services we want to use.

Websites really need be nothing more than indexes and trackers which serve up a list of peers who are hosting the files we want.

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rambaroo@lemmy.world
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I doubt a p2p network would be able to match YouTube:s current performance.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip
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It’s harder to profit from that, so obviously that’s not the direction things went.

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TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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To be fair, they aren’t exactly profiting from the current strategy.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip
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Youtube itself might not be making a profit, but I double Google as a whole isn’t by having YouTube. They keep you in their ecosystem longer, and that’s good for them regardless of if you’re watching ads.

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JW_@programming.dev
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How would the content creators get rewarded in that system? Some of the YouTube ad money goes to the channel the ad is shown on.

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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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Because have you ever stumbled upon dead torrents? I see this more as a backup method to relieve the load rather than the only one.

(Wish I had a perma-online SBC to seed my torrents btw)

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