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My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.

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superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.

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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sadly, from what I gathered, a lot of kids will follow a video link rather than a text one.
  
  I’m the exact opposite as for 90% of topics, I’ll be able to extract the same amount of information in 1/10th of the time.
  
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- boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yup; we are not the target audience, I guess
  
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