Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads

Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by bwb on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:54AM (#38331028)

What they are doing is working great... not sure why you would say that. They are the most popular platform, fantastic services and adding more, and easy to pay to remove ads for a reasonable amount of money. Their model is working great from a business and service perspective.

What else do you want?

You want it to be free for you where you don't have to pay anything to use it? Seems like you don't have a realistic view of what it costs to run / build / maintain this.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by Retr0id on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:56AM (#38331046)

I've served terabytes worth of video content from my home internet connection, for free.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by bwb on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:58AM (#38331058)

Congrats?

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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by Retr0id on Sunday November 19, 2023 @05:10AM (#38331142)

You're correct that I don't know how to run YouTube, the company, but I absolutely know what it takes to serve video. I'd like to see more people who aren't YouTube operating in the same sector.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by bwb on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:42PM (#38336141)

Hopefully you can see how the chasm between those two things is like the Grand Canyon :)

I love "the confidence" as I think that is what makes a great entrepreneur who says something like "Oh that is easy, I can do that", cut to 10 years later and a lot of pain, and maybe they have...

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