Yeah they are and they need to act like seperate businesses to each other. But Google is just going to loan YouTube money when it needs to. Google is basically playing the game with infinite money.
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potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 weeks agoAfaik, business units are individual. Their products don’t finance each other.
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And the user experience I should expect depends on their stupid hierarchy for reasons I should care about, I’m sure, but still I find myself not. Choosing to enshittify is a choice. Choosing a business model that depends on coercion into an ecosystem that will become enshittified after accumulating a critical mass is another, even more evil choice. Doing it while those cheering loudest are the ones being fucked hardest (I mean, there’s still a “certain line” between how badly “certain groups” are discriminated against, but let’s keep things broad here because we all know the in-group is going to shrink… you know the poem, those that don’t speak up and all that) is yet another choice and one that I’m not willing to join. Doing it while playing monopolistic games arguably even more strongly than Microsoft did when it got hit with a Nynex-level antitrust suit is a step even further down the fuck-me-brick road. The list goes on. Have you met Android??? Google’s motto used to be Don’t Be Evil. Yeah, I’m at least that old. Fight me.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Dude, if you dislike it that much you could just like… not use it?
boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stringing more non-sequitors into this probably won’t make it make more sense
potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 week ago
K. Keep using a service you hate then, I guess.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Or, we could use it for free! Get two birds stoned at once!