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Depends on what lists you use. If you use uBlock Origin, and enable most of the lists, it'll target both.

> They don't use HTTP. HTTP is used to bootstrap the player, not to feed the content. The content itself is served over another protocol such as RTMP and that protocol is a streaming protocol (it sends chunked data) and it wasn't intended for downloading files and writing them to disk as a singular binary blob. Obviously it can be used that way but it's fair to say services like youtube-dl are using the protocol in ways it wasn't originally intended to be used rather than content owners serving content on a protocol that was always designed for distributing files.

Not true at all, most YouTube videos are offered as plain webm files.

Also, keep in mind that recording TV's is legal.

Most people are already hit by "wealth taxes", except they are regressive - it's called "property tax".

There's matrix-ircd which exposes Matrix servers as an IRC server. So, I'm pretty sure what you want already exists.

I run the server busshi.moe, if you sign up there I can manually confirm your account if you use a fake email. Mastodon has no option to disable requiring an email, but Pleroma does.

That's what PeerTube does already - it uses webseeds. You can pretty easily set it up so videos are served through a CDN.