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(parodical) YouTube popup:
Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service
- It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?!
- We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money to be the only game in town.
- Now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so that our advertisers know you’re paying attention.
(Two buttons, first one suggested)
Let us program your brain
Foot the bill directly
The thing with Google isn’t that they removed the “don’t be evil” mantra they held for 2 decades.
It’s that in the 5 years since officially removing that mantra, they’ve done their best to be the most cartoonishly evil they can be.
You make it sound as if they started after they removed the mantra
Oh no, but they sure as hell went balls to the walls Austin Powers tier cartoonishly evil since then.
Forget YouTube.
Sony owns a patent for a system/concept that needs you to audibly name the company/product the advertisement is for to continue at the end of the advertisement.
https://fortune.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terrifying/
With that power comes great responsibility. If they implement it, they are evil. If they don’t use it but have fees so high that others can not use it without going bankrupt, they are less evil.
In the center of the pizza, the toppings appear to make a sad face, as if the person who drew the artwork for the patent felt bad about drawing artwork for such a shitty patent idea.
On the bright side they haven’t used it and now no one else can.
Verification cans are coming
Well I suppose AI generated speech will come in handy
YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.
All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.
You’re completely correct, but I want to explore it a bit more.
It’s not like YouTube didn’t also need to do these things, but they had the advantage of being more or less the first to even try, therefore had the fairly substantial benefit of being able to grow gradually as their traffic volume increased from the late 00s into the early 10s.
Any YouTube competitor entering the scene needed to hit the ground running and didn’t have the luxury of being able to gradually scale up. They need to match YouTube immediately, or be considered an inferior platform.
YouTube was first, and everyone else needed to play catch-up with a headwind.
Well YouTube didn’t kill the competition, but Google did. When they bought YouTube because it took off and Google videos didn’t.
This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode 15 Million Merits
Fifteen million merits.
The hands going up when the person stands to say “McDonald’s” is unbelievable
When Google advertises that if you raise your hand in real life then Google Meet will mark you as having your hand raised, this reality just got a little bit closer.
Only 1 option: Leave
Doesn’t sound very nice
