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• cheddar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Free or not, monopolies should be regulated.

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do you pay for nebula?

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    • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, and ads should be regulated regardless of whether the service is free or not. Same way you can’t put outright porn on a highway billboard.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re a monopoly that relies on users to produce content. You see, in a functional capitalist system, when one supplier deliberately hinders competition through unfair trade practices, they are made to change their methods in order to foster competition.

  When that system is corrupted and fails to act in a timely manner, all bets are off.

  You know where else you can go to find the billions of videos users have uploaded? No. How did it get that way? Just, luck? No.

  Yes, we want regulations on ads in YouTube, and it’s an ignorant and arrogant position to call that “entitled”.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’ll never get upvotes for telling people this reality, but you are of course completely correct.

  If only we saw as much enthusiasm for voting generally as we see for taking ads off YT. Maybe we’d actually get a government that was willing to regulate titans.

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