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The video doesn't play for me. Anybody have a youtube link?

View on HN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsxnOg0bJY

Thanks!

No probs! There also appears to be a longer teaser vid on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izOJ7zX5I0

First result on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsxnOg0bJY

Out of curiosity what is the monetary benefit of self hosting streaming video?

I dunno dude. I can't seem to play anything on slate. ghostery blocks it. So I disable ghostery and the video element loads. I click play and the video does not play.

YouTube works fine with ghostery.

I want to watch shit online without people watching me. I don't think that's unreasonable. Lots of sites try to make it really fucking hard, though.

/end rant

If sites embedding video would simply post links to the YouTube content, that would help markedly.

I had the same problem FWIW: absolutely nothing on Slate's page evidenced that there was video let alone where it was hosted. Thanks HN for pointing out the sources.

I use disconnect.me which is similar to ghostery, doesn't have that problem.

ad revenue back to Slate as opposed to Youtube?

Is the ad revenue share from youtube < self hosted ad revenue - cost of hosting video and streaming it. Honestly do not know. But seems unlikely.

No risk of losing traffic to youtube and branding.

Unfortunately, it had the exact opposite effect.

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