• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I’d hope that would lead to FTC action, but that’s only if the republicans don’t win the presidency next year.

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        11 months ago

        Youtube’s entire platform is built around dominance. It’s the one-stop-shop for all “content creators.”

        They won’t sacrifice that because it will make Youtube no longer synonymous with ‘online video.’

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            11 months ago

            I 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.

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              11 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.

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                11 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.

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                  11 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.

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                    11 months ago

                    But using the dominance of YouTube to influence the browser market is textbook anticompetitive, painting a huge target on themselves for regulators.