I don’t really get the sentiment here - what’s happening is the standard development if a public good (that youtube kind of was before google purchased them) gets privatized. It’s the same with communications (isn’t AT&T great?), water, electricity, rail infrastructure and trains, roads - investors are never good for the public good. They’re only good at lining their pockets.
I suspect that if Google hadn’t bought them, it would have been only a matter of time. Storage back then was hella expensive and without the ad cache, i don’t know they could have afforded to grow and stay ‘free’.
YouTube was pretty damned good for quite a while, even after Google purchased it.
Back in the day, when you got 1 30-second ad, or even two 30-second ads, right in the center.
Things started to go to shit around the 1 min unskippable ads.
I don’t really get the sentiment here - what’s happening is the standard development if a public good (that youtube kind of was before google purchased them) gets privatized. It’s the same with communications (isn’t AT&T great?), water, electricity, rail infrastructure and trains, roads - investors are never good for the public good. They’re only good at lining their pockets.
I suspect that if Google hadn’t bought them, it would have been only a matter of time. Storage back then was hella expensive and without the ad cache, i don’t know they could have afforded to grow and stay ‘free’.
YouTube was pretty damned good for quite a while, even after Google purchased it.
Back in the day, when you got 1 30-second ad, or even two 30-second ads, right in the center.
Things started to go to shit around the 1 min unskippable ads.
Somebody, please, think of the shareholders /s_