YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by Andrex on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:49PM (#17340167)

> Since video hosting is such a resource intensive undertaking, I wonder why many free porn sites don't have outages and have no limit on uploads for free users - unlike YouTube competitors.

Because they can run far riskier and less-vetted ads. They can also run as many of them as they want - the "target audience" doesn't really care if there's 1000 banner ads on a page. There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

For consumer facing video sites, they have to compete with YouTube on UX, which means much more stringent ad vetting, and far fewer ads. This likely tips the balance just enough that normal online video startups are not feasible without 3-4 years of runway.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by linuxps2 on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:55PM (#17340213)

>There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

I thought this was no longer the case

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by zaroth on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:02PM (#17340272)

With the death of Flash, if malware ads are getting past Chrome’s sandbox isn’t there like $100k at Pwnium just waiting to be claimed?

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by earenndil on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:01PM (#17340770)

100k is peanuts compared to what you can make bitcoin mining on the computers of all pornhub users.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by zaroth on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:32PM (#17342498)

I meant to say, if such a piece of malware were ever actually deployed in the wild researchers would be scrambling to decompile and reverse engineer it, to determine how it worked in order to report the vulnerability.

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