Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google doesn’t pay taxes. They save something like 3-4 billion a year not paying taxes.

  It’s entirely sustainable.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What did they charge the government for selling out to the surveilance agencies?

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• NausetJF@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I doubt that is remotely enough to keep YouTube from being a moneysink for google

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  • ilovesatan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not a money sink. They are using the data they collect to rake in cash. Don’t let the fact the money is made by a different business unit fool you into thinking Google is struggling.

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  • KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doubt its as big of a money snk as we are being told… sounds like google PR working overtime there to me

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• KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so it being free forever is completely unsustainable.

  Well they own a lot of the infrastructure that makes youtube possible, which means they are keeping their own costs a lot lower than people think. I believe a lot of the ‘its unsustainable’, or ‘it makes not money’ rhetoric we are hearing is come straight from the google PR dept.

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• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A lot of devices still don’t run much more than 1080p so theres not a big audience for what you suggested.

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  • dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but still with ads for free users.

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cant be that different a number of devices who are running ad block

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    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Phones and laptops have adblock, too, mate. It’s not exclusive to people who make 80k+ a year.

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those also have firefox, you wanna compare the install count on that?

        Not very many people actually use adblock, compared to who dont. A lot easier to just buy a machine and screen that can run 4k than figure out what the kids mean when they say “plugin”

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