jray4559@lemmy.sdf.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces
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11 months agoThe age of people willing to go through the effort to start and maintain their own website has LONG since passed.
A nice utopia… but one that won’t ever be real, sadly.
Honestly, I have no real clue.
Twitch isn’t quite completely impervious to adblockers, with proxy extensions allowing us to skip ads still for now, but YouTube could do the exact same thing tomorrow if they wished. uBlock Origin wouldn’t save you, SponsorBlock wouldn’t save you, the only thing that could be done would be a black screen whenever an ad pops up.
Maybe YouTube doesn’t want to fall into the hole Twitch is in, with the proxy loophole, and they view fighting adblockers as a better choice than having to spend a massive amount of encoding expense to have the silver bullet in every country.