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bye bye youtube (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

but to pretend like this is some new extra greedy move is just ridiculous.

I disagree. Google ran Youtube at a massive loss for many many years and effectively killed all competition in doing so. If Youtube had to play by the same rules as everybody not owned by Google the video streaming world would probably be very different today. Video streaming has always been extremely expensive. Youtube has just been subsidized by infinite money from Google Search. They can turn on the ads now because there's no competition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

YouTube was never able to dominate the live-streaming market though, mostly because people keep committing murders on livestreams, I think Facebook leads the pack in murders but I’m not sure. YouTube really needs to up its murders per million users metrics if they have a chance of ever overtaking twitch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

when i say "video streaming" i mean sites like youtube where you upload a video and people stream it (rather than download it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Very similar market same with movie and tv streaming and it’s weird YouTube wasn’t able to monopolize those markets either when their parent company google was able to monopolize so much of its shared market. Google has far less competitors than YouTube.