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mcc Jun 30, 2023

Entire Internet is dying at once https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-confirm-three-strikes-policy-ad-blocking-test-3340826/

YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking, here's how it works

YouTube has confirmed that it's testing a three-strikes policy for blocking ads. It's also outlined how this policy will work.

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mcc Jun 30, 2023

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

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Arthur Gron

@mcc I find when organizations, such as community groups, self host they are more successful in the long run. They organize to collect money to keep the site running, meaning that they become more formal. Teach each other how to maintain it. Build their own email, and contact lists.