• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Because when you get pissed off at one shitty video and click off it to find a better one, that’s free real estate in which to double your ads.

    And what are you gonna do? Go to Peertube? YouTube is too gigantic to have a real competitor no matter how much we try. It is a beast so massive and bloated at this point that we just can’t kill it without legislative interference. And Google knows damn well that they’re basically the only game in town so they aren’t afraid of significant user backlash.

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      14 days ago

      There is a breaking point, eventually. YouTube’s trajectory is gonna make next quarter’s revenue great, but eventually something else will pick up user’s attention instead.