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Yea but what's the incentive for Google ? They are a player in this space as well, and if anything they seem to want to scale up (Youtube Red, etc). (And sudde
by leppr 9y ago
Yea but what's the incentive for Google ? They are a player in this space as well, and if anything they seem to want to scale up (Youtube Red, etc).
(And suddenly, people remember how monopolies hurt consumers and regret giving Chrome so much market-share. Or not.)
- dakom 9y agoWidevine
- xyzxyz998 9y agoI would ask people to get off Chrome & GitHub. Chrome for future of browsing and github for future of development. There are wonderful (I'd dare and say better) alternatives very easily available. "As long as monopoly doesn't hurt me, why should I care."
- amelius 9y agoThis is somewhat ironic, since Youtube became big because of content right infringements.
- dasil003 9y agoCross the bridge and then burn it is a proven strategy, I wouldn't exactly consider it ironic.
- TrickyRick 9y agoWell they're implementing an ad-blocker which seems counter-intuitive for a company built on ad revenue. The same idea applies here as well, if you force advertisers to do reasonable adverts people are more likely to accept the remaining ads. Pop-unders are one of several reasons why I run an adblocker for any site I don't visit regularly.