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Ask HN: Why YouTube show ads of brave browser which competes with Google Chrome?
I am surprised to discover it in Youtube Ads. The browser competes with Chrome, why Google will show its ads on one of its products?
- tenith 5y agoI think its because Google isn't afraid of them in the least. It also is probably a decision made to prevent monopoly complaints. If they were to stop ads for Brave or other browsers showing, using their advertising arm either on Youtube, or the web in general, it would bring attention to and provide an impetuous to break up Alphabeta (Google's parent company) for being too broad.
- delgaudm 5y agoNot to be snarky, but they paid for them. I'm not incredibly familiar with the ad buying process for product that compete with Google, but I don't imagine they would restrict those ads.
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- speedgoose 5y agoI think forbidding a competitor to advertise on the main video network would be seen as an anti-competitive practice, Alphabet and Google probably don't want to give more arguments to people who want them to split their activities in smaller companies.
- lizard_heart 5y agoYeah. Brave being denied from advertising on YouTube would be a pretty big story.
- lizard_heart 5y agoYeah, if they denied brave from advertising on YouTube it would be a pretty big story.
- fred_is_fred 5y agoIf this works like any large company then YouTube is seeking to maximize revenue and doesn't really care what's going on with Chrome. In the 1990s there were cases of things like IBM fabbing chips for HP servers, which competed with IBM ones. More recently Azure runs plenty of Linux and Linux instances - rather than only Windows.
- Flimm 5y agoTo me, the bigger surprise is that these ads on YouTube promote that Brave blocks YouTube ads.
- dankwizard 5y agoBecause Brave isn't their competitor? If anything it helps them - The illusion of choice in a chromium world
- chews 5y agomoney... google likes it, brave has it to spend.