Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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    1 year ago

    You can see how hard they optimized by watching a very old video you uploaded yourself.
    Exanple of mine:
    I uploaded 3 videos some time (2x 9 years and 1x 6 years) ago with about 1min of runtime each.
    They do not get clicked much.
    Timing it, it took Google about 3 seconds to view it the best available resolution.
    Only 3 seconds is insane if one remembers how long a drive needs to just spin up from standby. And that is not even with a cached video.

    Now I wanna see how long it would take a competitor to achieve the same performance.

    I remember some time ago when YT took about 10-15sec to do the same task. They heavily improved their performance. Even for low performance content.

    Sad that some are so entitled.