Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an alternative and I found odysee.com/ and it seems to be open source and less prone to censorship, I was wondering what you guys were using or thinking of switching too. I think Odysee is FOSS which is giant plus for me and I absolutely love it’s looks.
What do you guys think?
The developer and the volunteers of Ublock Origin are very responsive, perhaps you could forward your issues to them.
Many sites aggressively respond to ad blocking, it’s cat and mouse.
I don’t know if they are active on Lemmy, they certainly were on Spezit
thank you! I will do that!
edit: seem to be getting rained with issues pertaining to yt, I guess, this issue is reported
It’s blockchain garbage. Avoid.
Also, the only good creator on there is Mental Outlaw. And he’s also on YouTube for the foreseeable future, so…
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My problem with odysee is that it’s blockchain based and content is impossible to delete, they can only delist it. It’s not foss, but Rumble has been getting more content that isn’t right-wing comentary and politics.
It’s the only platform at the moment that I think could ever surpass YouTube only because creators can make money off it through ads very easily. I would like to see an open source platform like Peertube to be bigger but unless they can find a way to monetize it and give creators a cut, I don’t think it is likely.
I gave it a look a while back, it’s not for me and it definitely won’t replace Youtube. I still remember when Vimeo was being touted as a “YouTube Killer” and we all know how that turned out. Vimeo did fill it’s unique niche though, and Odyssey does as well, but a YouTube replacement it is not.
I was wondering what you guys were using
I’m still using youtube because that’s where all my favorite content creators are and I don’t care about ads 😬
