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arrow-up1804arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave9to5google.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square301fedilink
minus-squarevery_well_lost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down2·6 months agoThat’s what they want. Get all the users they aren’t able to monetize off the platform to lower their costs.
minus-squaredanielbln@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down5·6 months agoI mean, I like a good Google hate train as much as the next guy, but that’s kind of a legitimate thing to want.
minus-squareSmokeydope@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoFollow the damn train, CJ!
minus-squarebruhduh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoOoooooh my dawg
minus-squareInternetUser2012@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoThat’s a double edged sword though, lose viewers and you lose appeal to advertisers. Lose users and they’re going to go somewhere else. That somewhere else will eventually grow and be competition. The bigger it gets, the faster it will grow.
That’s what they want. Get all the users they aren’t able to monetize off the platform to lower their costs.
I mean, I like a good Google hate train as much as the next guy, but that’s kind of a legitimate thing to want.
Follow the damn train, CJ!
Ooooooh my dawg![th-3435425753](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8d62c07-29fe-4ffe-a4e4-31a3118cbdc0.jpeg)
Then I’mma leech HARDER
That’s a double edged sword though, lose viewers and you lose appeal to advertisers. Lose users and they’re going to go somewhere else. That somewhere else will eventually grow and be competition. The bigger it gets, the faster it will grow.