$$YouTube $$
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Since taking over YouTube, Google is:
- Adding in more ads.
- Using a heavier censorship hand.
- Doing their best to drive consumers to Premium.
- Using ever murkier rules for content providers.
It's all about the Benjamins...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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It takes a lot of money to run and maintain YouTube.
The bajjilion servers, gajjilian bytes of storage, gazzilion bits per second of bandwidth to stream the videos ... it takes lots of money to stream that much stuff to the world.YouTube could not have scaled as fast or as well as it has without Google.
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GK, do you have an ad blocker? I find that it sometimes (sometimes!) removes ads from videos.
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Since taking over YouTube, Google is:
- Adding in more ads.
- Using a heavier censorship hand.
- Doing their best to drive consumers to Premium.
- Using ever murkier rules for content providers.
It's all about the Benjamins...
@Jolly Yes but they're doing it stupidly.
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Reading something about google buying You Tube and it was saying that when they first bought it and the first couple of years, the "loss" of running You Tube was about USD$700MM/year
I remember talking with friends and predicted that they would either start charging for watching videos are start adding more ads. It was pretty obvious that they were going to do so.
It is, as Jolly says, all about the money.
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I watch a lot of YouTube on my TV via Roku, and hardly ever get a commercial at all, which now I come to think of it is rather odd.
