Probably not but one can hope… to the Fediverse lemmings!
Yes. You will gradually see all corporate centralized social media wall itself off over the next couple years into a tiny, heavily monetized little walled garden.
The free-money monetary policy that has funded the explosion of Internet companies since 2000 is over. Inflation is up and central banks are putting emergency tourniquets on the cash pipes that these companies need to burn endlessly to keep the “free to use” model operating.
Lemmings!
Let’s please not start the “redditor” like bullshit here, thanks.
And invidious seems to be under legal threat from google as well.
Don’t forget YouTube disabling the video player all together if they catch you using an adblocked
This is a big concern for me, I use YouTube a lot on desktop browser with uBlock Origin. It will be crushing for me when they shut that down. I have no viable alternative to YouTube. It’s not just that, Google is forcing everyone to the Manifest V3 extension platform which reduces adblock capability on Chrome. So it’s like a double whammy. I can move to Firefox to avoid that, but I’m in a corner with YouTube. Seriously the internet is mostly intolerable without a blocker like UBO.
I don’t get that though, it’s not possible to block YouTube ads, so the adblocker, ublock etc, is only blocking ads on other websites unrelated to YouTube. It’s got nothing to do with them.
So… What gives?
Bravo browser on Android does a great job at blocking ads on YouTube. After the demise of Vanced this is how I watch YouTube.
They work great on desktop browsers, maybe yours isn’t configured right?
And on Android there are alternatives…
I watch a lot of YouTube though (mostly science channels) so I will probably be forced to start paying. I don’t like it.
It’s clear that something is going on. At least for Reddit and Twitter, they need to make money. They’ve made that pretty obvious but it is curious why now. Facebook and others didn’t seem to have this issue. YouTube sounds like google just Google
I’m not sure how Lemmy will last if it grows massively. But I’m here for a good time not a long
Facebook and others didn’t seem to have this issue
maybe because Facebook already required users to login before seeing most of the content?
Wikipedia has done well for itself using donation runs and grassroots support, so if there are ways for instances to do similar the decentralized nature of this will work out ok.
Elsewhere the issue is many of these large services have grown to the size of effectively being a public good, but good luck maintaining a public good in a profit generating way as a private company seeking the next quarter’s growth.