Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by j16sdiz on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:36AM
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Nebula was created by a few creator, trying to solve this problem.
I have no idea how well it worked out - I am still contented with the ad-filled YouTube
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by HeeroML on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:17AM
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No it actually wasn’t. Nebula isn’t sustainable. It’s co financed by curiositystream.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by collaborative on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:41AM
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Do you know if Rumble is sustainable? Just curious
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by notthemessiah on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:35AM
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No way in hell, it's currently just a vanity project financed by untrustworthy billionaires (the main financier is literally a snitch for the FBI https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-ch...).
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by valdiorn on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:17AM
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haha, you think the fact that Peter Thiel talks to the FBI is the worst thing about Peter Thiel? :)
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by collaborative on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:55AM
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Thx.. Almost didn't want to know. One step closer to wearing a tin hat now
Ps. Now I am curious why you are getting downvoted. Are people here in favor of this type of thing? I wouldn't be surprised either at this point
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by Freak_NL on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:58AM
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I'm still in favour of a fixed subscription one pays for a service like YouTube in the range of €5/month, with 95% of the proceeds going to creators. If you do nothing, the money will be doled out equally based on some set of fair (and frequently scrutinized) parameters. If the subscriber wants to, they can allocate a portion of this fee to specific creators, and also remove it from creators the you do not want to support (this might help with clickbait and empty fluff created to work well with specific searches).
It won't happen of course.
I recently had ads show up before videos on YouTube (audio only, so uBlock Origin was blocking part of it), and the only thing I felt was disgust and a mental note never to buy insurance from InShared (a Dutch insurance company) simply for repeating the same stupid jingle for each video.
Where do creators go if not YouTube!? Ideally they could self host videos which could be expensive AND not bring any revenue, neither do they are they discoverable - this is where the internet is broken these days.
And maybe this is where micro transactions would have a proper use case, i.e. if you had a browser extension where you add $5 and then you can dish out 1ct or 10ct for some content...