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I don't know what to think here. On one hand, Google is writing code to make YouTube faster on its own browser. This is reasonable. On the other hand, Google
by pwaivers 8y ago
I don't know what to think here. On one hand, Google is writing code to make YouTube faster on its own browser. This is reasonable. On the other hand, Google is also using its dominance in internet video streaming to make Chrome look like a better product than the others. This is anti-competitive.
It is wrong to optimize for your own ecosystem, without optimizing for others?
- zajd 8y agoIt's a symptom of a greater problem, which is that Google (the search engine) owns Chrome, Youtube, Android, Maps, Gmail, and a whole host of other services that are tenuously linked at best (outside of the fact that all the data gets fed into advertising algorithms) Quite frankly, the company should be broken up forcibly by the government. All of these services should be profitable on their own, not used as loss leaders to grab as much ad data as possible and stamp out any sort of competition.
- TremendousJudge 8y agothe only actually profitable part of the company is AdSense; the rest would just go bankrupt if it was on its own
- zajd 8y agoOr they would be forced to charge for their services and actually compete in the market. Fastmail/protonmail exist, there's no reason Gmail couldn't charge $10/mo and provide the same services