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

they think they have us sufficiently cornered on centralized sites, they may be right.

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Especially with video. Reddit was easy-ish to leave – I haven’t left entirely – since it’s just a link aggregator and glorified forums. That’s nothing new to the Internet. And Twitter was easy to replace with Mastodon.

But hosting video? That’s a tough one to replicate. I know there are some other platforms out there, but I can’t imagine any could really take on YouTube, due to space and bandwidth considerations.

So yeah, I think YouTube has us all by the balls. And they know it.

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