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by darkpuma 2555 days ago
Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that.

This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.
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v7p1Qbt1im 2554 days ago
By your logic there would be no YouTube. Or no user generated video at all. I imagine most people (including me) wouldn‘t like that.
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darkpuma 2554 days ago
> "By your logic there would be no YouTube."

In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.

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v7p1Qbt1im 2554 days ago
> I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like.

What does that even mean? Clearly another platform of similar popularity would end up heaving the exact same problems.

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erklik 2554 days ago
> I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like.

Could one even exist while Youtube does?

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