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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by AndrewUnmuted on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:50PM (#24001630)
Like every other startup, they pursued "growth at all costs," got acquired by a business that could eat all the red ink, but now over a decade later, that business is sick of it and looking for the mouth wash. It's just too bad they got pretty much the entire first world addicted to it before they decided to ban anti-war content as "racist" and alternative approaches to medicine as "dangerous."

Why is YouTube so insistent that we not use our own minds to decide for ourselves? Perhaps because they really would find it more preferable if you didn't do any of that thinking for yourself. That's not how advertising works. [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/781798-universal-literacy-w...

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by zozbot234 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @03:22PM (#24001931)
Pre-acquisition YT was nowhere near as large or popular. Videos used to be tiny resolution, heavily compressed and limited to a few minutes in length. Which is to say, most of their pursuit of "growth at all costs" was well after they were acquired and became part of Google/Alphabet.
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