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by serf 980 days ago
yeah.

given that in-stream ads still have blocking/ignoring methods I think that if this arms race keeps going that ultimately the data (video, whatever) is going to be stuffed behind some hard authentication barrier of some sort -- and then traditional piracy methods will take over like single-user-rebroadcast/etc.
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Aurornis 980 days ago
The number of people who will do all the things necessary to play in that arms race gets smaller and smaller with each extra difficulty.

In the end, if the only way to block the ads is to have a setup so complicated that only 1 in 10,000 people would be able and willing to maintain it, that’s basically perfect. The people who will spend hours and hours perfecting and maintaining their ad blocking setup were never going to buy premium anyway and they’re negligible drains on resources.

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losteric 980 days ago
I look forward to my browser-based TiVo, buffering videos to ship over ads just like in the 00s... TV started as advertising channels, it's not surprising YouTube converges towards the cesspool of cable TV.
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