Irisos
@Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 7 months ago:
Let’s not forget the unmentioned income thanks to gathering all that user data.
The real value of Youtube (and social medias in general) is not the raw revenue they generate.
It’s being able to be able to predict what will trend in advance. Which is proven by their 200+ billions in revenue from ads in general.
It’s extremely likely that in an alternate universe where Google doesn’t own YouTube, their profit today is lower than what they currently have.
But like you said, poor YouTube is not making money explicitly on its own so they’ll use it to justify any cost increase attempt when they already know what the real money maker is.
- Submitted 10 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Minecraft's recent EULA changes place heavy restrictions on Java servers 10 months ago:
Even if they updated to a new version, the hack client developers would probably just update their custom clients to ignore Mojang’s server ban list and call it a day.
The new EULA is a joke and it’s easier to tell everyone to use a third party client (which is most of the time better than the official one) than try to abide to them.