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YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users::undefined

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Google is a multi trillion dollar company. They can afford to run youtube at a loss for decades, if not centuries to come.

They don't want to because they are greedy and "need" to grow their profits yearly.

Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit ass shilling for a corporate entity that would kill you if it was profitable enough.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Why would google run YouTube if it's making negative profit? Seriously. Why would anyone do that?

Am I greedy too because I expect my work to pay more than it costs me to live?

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Because of the insane amount of advertising they can do on the massive majority of people who don't use adblock?

Because they hold THE monopoly on video upload?

There are many reasons why a company exists with no profit incentive.

[–] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think they do advertising? It's for profit lol.

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

... did I argue otherwise?

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