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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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Because they have a monopoly.
You're confusing a monopoly with the network effect.
Quasi-monopoly.
There are alternatives. Daily motion is still quite big, for example.
Get real, dude. YouTube is all about mass broadcasting to the widest audience available, not reliable playback and a lack of advertisement, not that Dailymotion has either.
YouTube has lots of competitors in the field of video content: Netflix et al, Twitch, TikTok, DailyMotion, Vimeo, PeerTube etc.
But they have a monopoly on specific content. If you search for a tutorial on how to take apart your specific toaster model, you'll probably only find that on YouTube. Or if you've watched a specific video creator for years and they only upload to YouTube. Or even if your colleague sends you a link to some dumb YouTube video, then you're not going to ask them for the title, so you can throw it into SepiaSearch.
If you're part of a younger generation, it's just not really an option to not use YouTube...