Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one. Which is a huge chunk of why no real competition has surfaced.
It's one thing to set up a proverbial store with prices so low you choke out the competition. It's another thing to essentially pay your customers to come in, either by literally paying them or by providing a service that they pay below actual cost for.
Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one.
That's probably why it's getting enshittified so quickly.
And search
Yeah, but that one is replaceable if people want too.
Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it
YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.
Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.
So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s
No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.
What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn't count)
Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.
It's also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer
They pretty much have a monopoly with YouTube.
Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one. Which is a huge chunk of why no real competition has surfaced.
It's one thing to set up a proverbial store with prices so low you choke out the competition. It's another thing to essentially pay your customers to come in, either by literally paying them or by providing a service that they pay below actual cost for.
That's probably why it's getting enshittified so quickly.
And search
Yeah, but that one is replaceable if people want too.
Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it
YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.
Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.
So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s
No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.
What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn't count)
Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.
It's also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer
Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of "googling".