YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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I've started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don't think any website is irreplaceable

Twitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn't be feasible for literal petabytes of it.