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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)
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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

newpipe is just a client for accessing youtubes servers, yes, so if youtube went away we would need to use vimeo or something else (maybe peertube, open source yt alternative?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Who pays for vimeo/peertube hosting costs though?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Vimeo is a private operation just like YouTube.

Peertube is a "federated" system where videos are hosted among the computers of the people who upload videos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There really needs to be a way to seed peertube videos without leaving the window open. A firefox extension even. They have extensions that do bittorrent, it shouldn't be hard. Videos could end with a "click here to seed this video" message

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I was really surprised when I started looking into it that there's no "remote bandwidth runners" option. Although I think Peertube's devs may be just starting to think about that kind of thing since they just added support for remote transcode runners

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks!