Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by ibaikov on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:31AM (#43025230)

I realized I was reading too many websites and decided to switch to RSS, only to find out that Google had killed Reader a month earlier.

Years later, I came across Artifact, created by the founders of Instagram, and thought it was an interesting idea. The problem was I was reading its shutdown announcement.

Sometimes I think products are killed way too early. Look at twitch, it boomed after years of stagnation.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by robertlagrant on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:56AM (#43025447)

Twitch has found some not-amazing niches to bulk up its revenue. A service needs to be profitable to work, and I don't think anyone wanted to pay for RSS. Or not enough.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by ibaikov on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:38AM (#43027007)

Somewhat true back then, but I think now there are more people who would pay for it, and they could capitalize a lot on integrating LLMs into RSS apps.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by robertlagrant on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:21PM (#43027439)

By comparison, Twitch's yearly revenue is consistently over $100m[0] from subscriptions and other in-app payments (e.g. taking a cut for buying their internal currency).

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/517907/twitch-app-revenu...

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