If YouTube stops working, it won't be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube's place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Your comment makes me giggle that there's a possible future where PornHub admins are getting angry at influencers for uploading wholesome content, in violation of the site Terms of Service.

Edit: I hope the headline reads, "PornHub has issued a press release - naming an account MrBeastPhilanthropy194768 isn't fooling anyone, and they need to take their charitable fundraising to a more appropriate platform."

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What makes you think any free option that takes YouTube's place won't have just as many ads? The traffic that pornhub gets compared to YouTube is not really comparable.

[–] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

Also, all those tube sites are littered with ads.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd bet traffic is similar but view time is way off.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Traffic is not even close from anything I can find. YouTube gets as many hits in a month as PH does in a year.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I guess that makes sense when you consider how many children are on YouTube.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Like fighting the system, building barricades, car tyres on fire?

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I still think most sites would struggle dealing with the stream of people continually uploading full episodes of copyrighted works, as well as finding a profitable revenue stream for all the bandwidth used. Even YouTube has a hard time with it.