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Re:Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube by jeffbee on Saturday August 31, 2024 @09:22PM (#41413434)
People always say this but what is the practical way this would come into effect? Unless the intention is to simply kill either YouTube or Google, or both, how do you separate out YouTube in a way that is meaningfully "breaking up" with Google but that the separate entity could afford?
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Re:Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube by miah_ on Saturday August 31, 2024 @10:25PM (#41413716)
There already was a time when Youtube was its own company. Google bought it. Maybe they didn't do great on their own but it was also ~2005 and things are very different now.
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Re:Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube by jeffbee on Saturday August 31, 2024 @10:52PM (#41413850)
Yes but before Google bought it, it was a money incinerator.
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