uBO being so good at blocking YouTube ads to the point where you didn't need to signup for Premium may have been the tipping point for Google that ended manifest V2.
i suspect that youtube mobile is responsible for more traffic than web. And that it's harder (but not impossible) to have adblocking on mobile (such as revanced).
to get any actual work done with DNS based blocking (ie. visiting Google ads, or their other dashboards) you quickly have to start whitelisting a ton of sites, which applies everywhere.
Curtis heavily applies quick cuts, emotive footage, authoritative English narration and emotional music to lull the viewer into his views. His message wouldn't work as written essays or books because they're just not very deep - it's early YouTube MrBeast-like audience optimisation for those who don't want to discover or read on topics.
It's not white hat because they actively extract data; if it was just to prove it worked they could've done a console.log, cause npm install to fail, or not extract a payload.
and they've been accepting bitcoin since 2010. I assume they've done very well from that (I'm afraid to calculate what the present value of my mullvad subscription would be)
Why would they have done well? they likely use a payment processor who dynamically price their € fees in Bitcoin and immediately liquidate all Bitcoin received.
Regarding incentives - with Perplexity, ChatGPT search et al. skinning web content - where does it leave the incentive to publish good, original web content?
The only incentivised publishing today is in social media silos, where it is primarily engagement bait. It's the new SEO.
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