• flubba86@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    But they didn’t invent that. They bought YouTube after it was already popular. The only thing they’ve done to the platform is put in more ads.

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      6 months ago

      YouTube launched in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. It has been a Google service for 95% of its existence. I’m pretty sure Google did other stuff in that 18 years than “put in more ads.”

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        6 months ago

        I dont like youtube, im being forced to use it if i want to wach content from my favorite creators, which by the way, also ain’t exactly happy with YT. Thats exactly the reason as to why so much people try it to migrate to twich and facebook gaming.

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      6 months ago

      And destroying the rating system from points based, to thumps up and down relation, to thumps up only.