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> Regarding the distribution of content: Google has been more than happy to carry YouTube's operating cost from their quasi-monopoly on internet ads. In return,
by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
> Regarding the distribution of content: Google has been more than happy to carry YouTube's operating cost from their quasi-monopoly on internet ads. In return, users gave them more detailed advertising profiles through the use of YouTube.
Ad data is not worth that much money, especially if you adblock all their ads. Every time you watch a Youtube video, Google loses money, why on earth should they serve their videos to you for free?
I use adblock, but I'm not under the delusion that I'm not freeriding off everybody who's not blocking ads.
- Beldin 3y ago> Ad data is not worth that much money, Google and facebook, some of the highest-valued companies ever to exist, make most of their money from ads. The ridiculous SV software engineering salaries aren't powered by goodwill, but by a need to compete with the salaries offered by these ad companies. Unity - a company making a game engine - is working on a licensing model where using their ad network gets you favorable rates. That is: the revenue model for a game engine is to include ad revenue from games that use their engine. If ad data was truly not worth so much, the internet would be better. So. Much. Better.