mccJun 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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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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@mcc Every time I bring something similar up and am dismissed, I can't help but be reminded of this XKCD comic. #743 Infrastructures.

"The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going."

Alt text included for those who need it.

Jul 3, 2023 at 1:05amWeb