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> Your competitors are advertising on facebook and google. If you want to compete you have no choice but to do both. My intuition is this is not a meaningful f
by whynaut 5y ago
> Your competitors are advertising on facebook and google. If you want to compete you have no choice but to do both.
My intuition is this is not a meaningful factor for a locally-focused business.
- SilverRed 5y agoAnd if you are bigger than local it doesn't matter if you are forced to do business with google? It's pretty easy to come up with a number of ways people are forced to use google products and how they should be treated different to small services. Right now it would be completely within googles right to block an individual from using youtube at all. You would have no legal recourse against this and it would massively impact your life. Almost all video on the web is on youtube. Even government information videos are hosted on youtube now as well as countless general information videos and health/safety videos. It's pretty easy to make a case that everyone should have a right to watch videos on youtube because of how important the content on youtube is. This is what making google a utility means. If some random forum bans you, you get on with your life. If Google does something it can have serious impacts on your life where you have no options for alternatives.