ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockerswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square537fedilinkarrow-up11.99Karrow-down126file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareJimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·1 year agoHow did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year ago How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Back then Google was “do no evil”, and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.
minus-squareOceanSoap@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoFor some reason, I’d never heard of vimeo until YouTube was already the default video powerhouse.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoGoogle was willing to lose money for awhile.
minus-squareWuTang @lemmy.ninjalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoindeed, this is this unfair advantage to these silicon valley behemots.
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoStorage, YouTube has way more data (crap) uploaded to it than vimeo.
minus-squareMSids@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoVimeo is not for the same purpose. It’s more B2B. I read somewhere that after a certain threshold they start billing you for views.
How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.
Back then Google was “do no evil”, and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.
For some reason, I’d never heard of vimeo until YouTube was already the default video powerhouse.
Google was willing to lose money for awhile.
indeed, this is this unfair advantage to these silicon valley behemots.
Storage, YouTube has way more data (crap) uploaded to it than vimeo.
Vimeo is not for the same purpose. It’s more B2B. I read somewhere that after a certain threshold they start billing you for views.