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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
(www.404media.co)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
YouTube was originally free, and without video ads. It remained so for some time after Google bought it. They can operate YouTube without video ads at all.
YouTube lived off venture capital, search sponsorships, and content hosting. Venture capital is long dried up. Search sponsorships are just advertisements but clogging your searches. Content hosting isn't really needed anymore since every large media company has their own streaming platform. Lot has changed since 2006.
What?! Have you checked how big a 4k video is lately? Where do you suppose the money for that should come from?
Who decided to provide 4K video? (Hint: it wasn't me.)
Good thing people didn't freak out when they tested putting 4k videos behind membership
1080p did nothing wrong