I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
Yeah, inside a week of them closing their servers I’ll see an absolute flood of users on platforms supporting LBRY (Peertube, anyone?) and that’ll be it. The day LTT and MKBHD go and say “Alright, we’ve had enough, they removed all of our content. We’re self-hosting it now” and do it, YouTube is dead beyond any semblance of hope.
So no, I’m not very worried.