Comment by ikeashark
2 days ago
> Youtube to the point where they are able to enforce Chrome standards that prevent adblocks from working.
Youtube needs to profitable somehow, and advertisers are the best way to do this. If Youtube couldn't generate the revenue through advertising, what else can they do?
It's insanely expensive to do video streaming, hence why Google invests a lot in the new compression formats today, WEBP, Brotli, AV1.
Do you just expect them to just do all of this for free?
No, but with big market share comes big responsibility.
Video streaming is extremely unprofitable sure, but in its care it tries to leverage its market share with Chrome browser to benefit. And you are not allowed to do that when your market share is big.