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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by jp555 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:28AM (#26660237)
If there were no advertisers, they would not be able to pay the expenses required to deliver something that meets user's expectations, and they would lose interest.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by ironmagma on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:15PM (#26662462)
Not necessarily. There are other models that could work for YouTube, like the subscription model, and they could always go back to YouTube being an unprofitable arm of Alphabet like it was.
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