Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • ExLisper@linux.community
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    1 year ago

    Sharing with whom? No one will watch it. Definitely no one will search for it. If you want to share video with your friends just send them a message. They will see it and it will be deleted after a week. This makes way more sense than hosting it on a platform indefinitely.

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      1 year ago

      Well, this way I got to see it. Thanks to you. Thanks.

      Luckily for me YT hosts all the crap

      Edit: Billions of years ago stars exploded. So today while waiting in line at the DMV I got to have an “awww” moment when someone I don’t know posted a link, to a video of other people I don’t know enjoying their dog, as an example of useless crap that a computer company hosts on its servers. Stars exploded. And here we are.

      Life is wild, man