• lipilee@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    that half sentence in the aa article though

    “That move makes sense in many ways, as the platform needs to make money to survive…”

    should we also start a gofundme for youtube, i am suddenly worried for them /s

    • businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      not saying we should worry for them, but youtube is run at a loss so they do actually need money from SOMEWHERE to maintain youtube. youtube still sucks and this is definitely not the way to win over users but thems the facts

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        8 months ago

        Alphabet made $50 billion in profit last year. They’ve got enough to run YouTube, but enough isn’t enough.