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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
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Yes. You will quit YouTube. But 99% of people won't and they make YouTube more revenue via either watching more ads or giving up and subscribing
None of those have all the creators and people don't want to go between multiple apps.
This fight is lost. The way to win it now is legislation or blowing up data centers.
Can somebody explain peertube for me? It sounds like it should be a federated video service, but either the federation doesn't work very well or there's nothing on it.
I finally gave up and subscribed, but only because the people I wanted to watch weren't all available elsewhere and because I was lazy
but this year I will be canceling YouTube as my last subscription