Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by pasttense01 on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:00AM
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Youtube got to its current position not by lowering prices but instead by Google making sure that Youtube videos are returned at the top of Google search results. Competing video websites don't have this advantage.
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YouTube had already beat its competitors before it was sold to Google.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by JimDabell on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:02AM
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Including Google Video. Google did try the tactic of using their search engine to promote their own video platform, but it was against YouTube and Google only bought them because it didn’t work.
it didnt work because people don't search for videos via google usually. They get the video directly from youtube, or was linked by friends virally.
Plus the early days of google (before youtube acquisition), i dont think their video search was as good as the text search anyway (but i might be misremembering of course...).
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by lobocinza on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:08PM
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Their video search still sucks.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by aifooh7Keew6xoo on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:28AM
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I'd go a lot further than "sucks".
The video results for most of my queries are like 90% SEO garbage without a video even being present on the linked page.
It's abject failure.