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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:02 last edited by
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...
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:08 last edited by Axtremus
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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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:19 last edited by
Didn’t google take over like a decade ago?
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:22 last edited by Jolly
@89th said in $YouTube $:
Didn’t google take over like a decade ago?
Somewhere around 2006, IIRC. Seems to me the noose has tightened much more over there, since YouTube Premium has been rolled out.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:41 last edited by
Watching a 15 minute video right now, and I get an ad approximately every 4 minutes.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 12:45 last edited by
@George-K said in $YouTube $:
Watching a 15 minute video right now, and I get an ad approximately every 4 minutes.
In years past, you got one, maybe two, total.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 13:21 last edited by
GK, do you have an ad blocker? I find that it sometimes (sometimes!) removes ads from videos.
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GK, do you have an ad blocker? I find that it sometimes (sometimes!) removes ads from videos.
wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 13:31 last edited by@89th said in $YouTube $:
GK, do you have an ad blocker? I find that it sometimes (sometimes!) removes ads from videos.
Yup. I run AdBlock, Ghostery, and Ka-Block!
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wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 13:37 last edited by
No free lunch. If you don't know what the product is, you are the product.
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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...
wrote on 16 Apr 2020, 15:30 last edited by@Jolly Yes but they're doing it stupidly.
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wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 10:15 last edited by
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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wrote on 17 Apr 2020, 15:57 last edited by Doctor Phibes
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.
