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by adventured 2491 days ago
YouTube is of course obviously safe.

Google Cloud as a whole is also safe. It's the individual given products you have to worry about disappearing. It's already a very large business. Even in third place it's going to be at least a $15-$20 billion business over time. They're not shutting that down.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-arr-earnings-8-...
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iamsb 2491 days ago
Given the speed with which youtube is demonetizing people or outright banning them, not sure how much longer it will sustain though.
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bigiain 2491 days ago
To be fair though, it's validly arguable that at least some of the people and content they're demonetising and banning are the very far end of the trashfire bellcurve, and that YouTube is nett better without them.
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C1sc0cat 2490 days ago
I was watching a YouTube channel that that reviews mics and audio gear last night and they had had videos de monetised because of reviews of "shotgun mics"
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dhimes 2490 days ago
Holy fuck! So their shutdown/demonetizing is being done by robots? They are automating the process of taking away peoples' way of earning a living? That is awful.
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bigiain 2490 days ago
Isn't this how google does _everything_??? (Or at least aims to...)
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dillondoyle 2491 days ago
This argument doesn't hold weight for me. Google demonetizes because advertisers don't want their ads on that content - and that is true no matter what platform.
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iamsb 2490 days ago
To some extent, yes. But see this comment -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818621 There are plenty of examples like this. Google's problem is not that it is cracking down on bad actors. The problem is, it does not have a human interface. So once you are part of type-1 error set, you have very little way out. Once there is sufficient number of such people, who have critical mass for a competing service.

And honestly, I am really glad that google products are dying. I switched to DDG 6 months ago, Firefox 1.5 years ago and I dont miss either of the products. Hopefully big tech monopolies will start crumbling one way or the other.

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zonidjan 2491 days ago
I wouldn't be so sure about YouTube being safe.
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