I feel as though some of these acquisitions represent not the purchase of something worth $x to Yahoo but rather the imperialism of traffic that costs $x to the

I feel as though some of these acquisitions represent not the purchase of something worth $x to Yahoo but rather the imperialism of traffic that costs $x to them, which are really the same thing but are rather different when viewed through the lens of shutdowns and stagnation. Yahoo is a content company, and content elsewhere means traffic elsewhere which is a loss for them. Facebook's purchase of Instagram, even if Instagram is shut down and loses all of its users is still worth the money if viewed through the lens of owning the traffic regardless.