Caporegime
Not sure I use android.
odysee - supposedly a viable alternative to YouTube?
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Not sure I use android.
Caporegime
Yeh with android it works but on iPhone it doesn’t.
My mate has an android and he disabled the ads. Whereas I’ve tried on iPhone and it doesn’t seem to work unless I’m missing something lol.
when I used an addblocker on android it was basically some weird internal VPN, apple probably block apps like that for "safety"
Soldato
I use Youtube on my PS5 and previously on PS4 Pro and unfortunately there is no viable option to block ads. Until a little while ago it was a case that you would either get a pre roll add or in video ad once in a while. Now every single video i watch has 1-2 adds at the beginning and several throughout the video itself.
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Other sites are available for that interpretationFreudian slip?
Soldato
I've often wondered about a subscription based video sharing site (or even a general social media site). So the initial few years would be, as an example £5 per month.
This would stop 99% of the sock puppet accounts.
This would stop 99% of the sock puppet accounts.
LIBRY is the underlying technology behind Odysee
Its called Floatplane (https://www.floatplane.com/)
Yeah tons of would be alternatives out there - but you have a hard time shifting an established presence in the market like YouTube - unless YT does something hugely damaging to the brand or someone comes out with something truly innovative. Even start ups that have managed to pull some serious financial backing and major ad agreements have folded.
Caporegime
I don't know what you mean, its just a bit of css, html and javascript. Easy.
Its quite fascinating seeing people with a little bit of knowledge dissect huge websites like youtube into a very human description. "its just X, Y and Z"
Don't worry about all the cross platform apps, server architecture which will be insane for something of this scale and geographic distribution, different browsers, creator tools, suggestion algorithms, account handling, comments, advertising, moderation, caching, search functionality etc.
Thats just a very simple look at what would be involved in making something like youtube.
There is a reason why its almost impossible to muscle in on the big tech players these days. They have everything fairly well sussed and have the architecture, knowledge and financial backing required to run app at this sort of scale. The only way you will ever beat something like youtube is if you can offer a good product and persuade all the best creators (who are making millions from youtube) to jump ship. To do that you will need massive backing to run at a huge loss until you start to compete properly with youtube. We are probably talking many billions of £'s to do this.
Caporegime
Computer forum and does know how to set up Youtube Premium for less than £2 a month than can be configured for multiple accounts, and thus across all devices.
Any way, Youtube is to video hosting as Bitcoin is to cryptocurrency as Hoover is to vacuum cleaners as Kleenex is to tissues as Jacuzzi is to hot tubs as Photoshop is to photo-editing software.
The brands are so established that they are synonymous with the product category they inhabit, even if they aren't necessarily the best.
I didn't thnk anyone used the term Hoover anymore. Every day is a school dayComputer forum and does know how to set up Youtube Premium for less than £2 a month than can be configured for multiple accounts, and thus across all devices.
Any way, Youtube is to video hosting as Bitcoin is to cryptocurrency as Hoover is to vacuum cleaners as Kleenex is to tissues as Jacuzzi is to hot tubs as Photoshop is to photo-editing software.
The brands are so established that they are synonymous with the product category they inhabit, even if they aren't necessarily the best.
Soldato
There already is competition - Daily Motion and Vimeo, but they're not really viable competition in terms of use numbers
Caporegime
I didn't thnk anyone used the term Hoover anymore. Every day is a school day
Over the past 12 months, hoover as a search term indexes the highest in the UK and Ireland.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=hoover
A general way to tell if a brand has 'made it' in this respect is if they have become a verb.
People say they need to hoover before guests come around, not they need to Dyson, even though Dyson is the more popular brand.
"Let me google this", "I'll Xerox this document", "Just gonna blu tack this poster to the wall"
Soldato
Interesting site. I see its the one the LTT set up.
I think its got the right idea, though its not visible much to the outside world. I think it would either need to show something more public to entice people over, or the subscription model would need to be done on an already visible site.
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Twitch got mentioned, is it just me that finds Twitch a chore to use? It just seems slow, though i do have slow internet. And feels like there could be more to it. Amazon being the size they are could do with some more investment in it i feel.