YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They have a literal monopoly on the service and the analytical data the sell makes more money then advertising ever could.

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      4 days ago

      Analytical data they sell to a very authoritarian government that verges on totalitarian.

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      I don’t doubt that they sell data, but it would have to be monumental to actually fund all their hosting needs.