• moody@lemmings.world
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    3 hours ago

    They didn’t start the service, they bought it with the long term plan of making it profitable.

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      1 hour ago

      I mean, you might be older than me but I doubt it :)

      I remember when YouTube was cool, before Google bought it. But at this point that was a relatively short time period. I know they bought it to make money and that’s not even necessarily the worst thing. My main issue with Google regarding YouTube is the slow enshittification of it. I remember when there was either no ad, or a 5-7 second single ad for a whole video. Those days are way gone though.