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?
You could say they’ve won battles, but never any war against piracy.
They’ve made examples out of low-hanging fruit and are trying to legislate compete authority over copyright(they’d legislate parody if they could), but it just isn’t feasible.
Piracy is a decentralized, evolving amalgation of countless methods and technologies bent toward the relatively simple task of sharing media.
They can close down a website or fine a clueless teenager 200,000, But that has no effect on the desire to watch a movie or play a video game without betting your money that the production will be of value.