Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers
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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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Vimeo is a private operation just like YouTube.

Peertube is a "federated" system where videos are hosted among the computers of the people who upload videos.

There really needs to be a way to seed peertube videos without leaving the window open. A firefox extension even. They have extensions that do bittorrent, it shouldn't be hard. Videos could end with a "click here to seed this video" message

Yeah I was really surprised when I started looking into it that there's no "remote bandwidth runners" option. Although I think Peertube's devs may be just starting to think about that kind of thing since they just added support for remote transcode runners