• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s so weird that YouTube is their second most profitable venture after adsense. It’s like they thought, we have a virtual monopoly on internet ads, Internet video, and web browsers. Let’s combine their power to make people watch non stop ads while tracking them worse than the CIA. Then, let’s be very surprised when people don’t like us and we get hit with antitrust lawsuits. Fuck Google.

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      2 months ago

      Then, let’s be very surprised

      They’re not the least bit surprised. They did the math. The profit is more than the penalty.

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      2 months ago

      And all they would need to do is offer a YouTube ad free plan that’s at a sensible price without any of the YouTube music crap included.

      But no… They keep trying to shove the YouTube Premium bundle down our throats and no one wants it. We just want ad free.