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Am I wrong in thinking Google has a simple base argument in that recreating Youtube without Google's ads is a bad thing for the future of their site? It's a sh
by Batsu 17y ago
Am I wrong in thinking Google has a simple base argument in that recreating Youtube without Google's ads is a bad thing for the future of their site?
It's a shame that a legitimate site may have brought the issue to light, but it's always only a matter of time before it turns into a method of generating revenue by creating dozens of Youtube clones using Youtube's API, and replacing all the ads with porn.
- norswap 17y agoTheorically speaking, you could recreate youtube whitout the ads juste by running a crawler that would create an html page embedding each video it finds. Of course the API facilitate that - but if the website doesn't have some solid added value, then it's no use at all (you're better off installing Adblock). Besides, "inline" video advertisement has it's purpose.