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Maybe the point isn't to make money, but to occupy space in the market and boost their power in other markets as a result.

• otherotherchris 5y ago
  If they want to "occupy space" they could just roll out an ad blocker into Chrome. Nuke all 3rd party advertising from orbit. I'm sure they could find a way to make youtube ads unskipable.
  • black_puppydog 5y ago
    Wow now there's an interesting thought experiment. As much as I'd love to see a real adblocker in chrome (even though I don't use it) I guess you could read that as "near-monopoly producer of browser software uses their market force to gain an upper-hand in a different branch of their business." That reads like a textbook anti-trust lawsuit :P
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