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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Some of us are data holders and have Gigabit internet with options to go even higher. Don't count out the little guys ability to share massive amounts of data... been doing it since zip drives and CDs

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Let's say only 500gb of video are uploaded every hour in this hypothetical federated YouTube (actual volume for the site looks to be ~200tb an hour). Are you honestly going to argue just that is even conceivably maintainable? You have to infinitely add storage space, multiple TBs a day.

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 6 points 11 months ago

Let's say I run my own hypothetical, federated, userpeer-to-peer and opt-in server CDN function-platform, also known as PeerTube...

I'd only accept those video uploads/uploaders I consider quality content.

I'd love to host many content creator's videos. From the goodness of my heart, for free, as a gift to you all. But certainly not all videos, and nowhere near 200 TB/h. But I can afford to host many TB's without it impacting my private economy.

That video of some idiot eating tidepods or whatever the current thing is? They could find somebody else that will host. Or if unable, host their own videos. Now we're both happy.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

That video of some idiot eating tidepods or whatever the current thing is? They could find somebody else that will host

Oh no! Censorship /s

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 11 months ago

No need to be sarcastic, in my kingdom I'll be absolute ruler and "censor" and suppress others as I see fit.

And everybody else is free to do the same and tell me to feck off.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I think censorship in the Fediverse works because you can always find a host which aligns with your ideology. Bad ideas automatically die out if the overwhelming majority of people stop spreading it, not because a giant megacorp decides it's not a good message to show to their shareholders.

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 11 months ago

But good ideas can be hidden from users if an admin bans instances or remote users. It's a new type of censorship.

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