Every single piece of apologism here casually pushes the idea that YouTube isn’t profitable and their poor staff are starving.
In 2020, YouTube gleefully declared they were generating $5 billion in ad revenue every 3 months.
Even after their bandwidth, storage and incredibly well paid engineers, there’s no way they’re burning that much money on expenses. That’s a billion dollars – 1000 million – per data center, per quarter. Enough to buy half of the CPUs leaving Intel’s factories
They’re not attacking ad blockers because they’re struggling to make ends meet as they hack away in their garage.
They’re doing it because there is no amount of money that can quench the greed of their shareholders.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No. What’s your point?
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Then it sounds like everyone is being compensated just fine.
papertowels@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Just a reminder that blocking adblock is contributing to google engineers salary, so you’re arguing to maintain the status quo and not disrupting it.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Every single piece of apologism here casually pushes the idea that YouTube isn’t profitable and their poor staff are starving.
In 2020, YouTube gleefully declared they were generating $5 billion in ad revenue every 3 months.
Even after their bandwidth, storage and incredibly well paid engineers, there’s no way they’re burning that much money on expenses. That’s a billion dollars – 1000 million – per data center, per quarter. Enough to buy half of the CPUs leaving Intel’s factories
They’re not attacking ad blockers because they’re struggling to make ends meet as they hack away in their garage.
They’re doing it because there is no amount of money that can quench the greed of their shareholders.
And there’s you, grovelling at their feet.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you want to argue, then make an argument.