Comment on YouTube Premium's price is going up in yet another country
chitak166@lemmy.world 9 months agoI mean, that’s a terrible business decision when you have a monopoly.
I can easily see you getting fired for even suggesting this. It just shows how out of touch you are with modern economics.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 9 months ago
This is Google’s strategy. Haven’t you followed the manifest V3 debacle? They want to end ad blocking once and for all. Their entire business model is to sell ads. They want to turn that ad blocking crooks into sweet new ad revenue. Maybe even subscription revenue.
chitak166@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, but google won’t sacrifice its monopoly to show people more ads. Hence why they, you know, haven’t done it yet.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 9 months ago
In what way are they sacrificing their monopoly? There’s no viable alternative to n YouTube.
They also restricted IE6 when it was far more dominant than Firefox is today (and when YouTube was far less dominant), so it’s not completely unheard of.
Chreutz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But using the dominance of YouTube to influence the browser market is textbook anticompetitive, painting a huge target on themselves for regulators.