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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/youtube-tests-blocking-videos-unless-you-disable-ad-blockers/

YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.

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RoqueNE

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Decentralized services also cost money to operate. Servers, bandwidth, developers. Where is the money for that supposed to come from?

manned_meatball

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LBRY solves it by creating their token and rewarding peers for storing and serving the media. The same goes for most P2P solutions, there's no entity that has to pay for the costs, all the network shares it. More users and peers mean higher resources, but the individual costs remain roughly the same.