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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by flomo on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:19PM (#28426434)
Youtube's flash player was massively superior to plugin-based quicktime/windows media/mystery google thing. (Several replies and nobody has mentioned it, it was a huge factor.)

Also you could just name a song and Youtube had the music video - it was the "napster" of video.

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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by shp0ngle on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:46PM (#28429460)
Yep, the flash player just worked everywhere.

YouTube was so popular on MySpace (that just allowed you to add random HTML… yeah that was a thing) that MySpace panicked for a while and added some javascript to make youtube videos not “clickable”; you could not click through to the YouTube page, just to play the video.

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