As someone who has worked on free Internet services, it used to be easier to make money from ads. A video ad view was worth nearly a dollar US. Audio ads were maybe 7 or 8 cents a listen. Now, a video ad view makes a few cents and audio ads are worthless. They likely did the math about how many audio ads they'd have to play on the phone in your pocket to break even and decided you'd hate it more than they would. Since content owners get just over half of what YouTube makes, they'd probably be pissed about seeing the drop in income too.
Feel free to hate YT. This was an economic decision at around the time when ad revenue had just fallen off of a cliff.
Americans so fucking stupid. Hah wait. That's it? That's the joke?
This I don't understand. Where is this coming from and who honestly would be okay with being called a big dumb dildo and laugh along like it's such a well known fact about their country? We're a lot of things, act like we own the world and everyone owes us money and gratitude, eat like shit while letting everyone know how to be healthy, use little creamer cups instead of cream. We're not idiots.
There isn't any way we could find a million high school students to donate experiments or golden records. What we need is to use government investment to shoot shameless product placement for my other company into space and live stream pictures of it.
I heard an interview about this new effort. IRS agents used to be rewarded by case count. It's much easier to audit people who earn salaries because you know exactly what they earned from employers' reports. Rich people often have many sources of income that take time to investigate. Agents audit normal folks because it's easy while the rich lie and get away with it.
The goal with this effort has been to change the incentive structure for agents to get the most money.
I've been reading On the Origin of Species and was surprised that even Darwin had noted that species that evolved in segregated environments like New Zealand had less competition, so weren't as fit. It's amazing to see how much progress has been made to undo damage done by humans and create environments were species like this can thrive again.
I don't understand how people see this as showing off, putting stuff in your mouth that you and your body don't want to be there. Like, why not eat a piece of shit and some stink bugs? Oh right because it's fucking stupid.
I keep literally all private data in Google. When I opened, refinanced, paid off my mortgage with Chase, I was inundated with calls and mail because my bank sold my data, account balances and contact info. Somewhere within Google is all of my private email and AFAICT, they haven't ever sold any data from it.
Google does some bad stuff. They sell access to you, not your data.
There are many people who speak other languages. This is less about, "Spanish", than what we should decide is a critical size of a language population for government to have to support it and how much. Where I live, the government supports three other languages and that comes with an expense, which we've decided is justified.
For a year and change, nobody in my house got sick. And then most people said, "Finally I don't need to mask." and we get sick all the time. We learned nothing.
You have data, but Andy Jassy has a gut feeling. Sundar Pichai really missed seeing everyone. Who's thinking about their feelings? We have to live our lives according to the whims and fancies of billionaire CEOs or else they'll be really sad.
I commented that China's state sponsored hacking probably contributed to their new processor looking surprisingly like competitors'. The responses... were disappointing. The China thing and stale content have been my only issues. Stale posts are a problem, but has meant that I'm done earlier and put my phone away sooner, which isn't great for engagement, but makes me feel better.
As someone who has worked on free Internet services, it used to be easier to make money from ads. A video ad view was worth nearly a dollar US. Audio ads were maybe 7 or 8 cents a listen. Now, a video ad view makes a few cents and audio ads are worthless. They likely did the math about how many audio ads they'd have to play on the phone in your pocket to break even and decided you'd hate it more than they would. Since content owners get just over half of what YouTube makes, they'd probably be pissed about seeing the drop in income too.
Feel free to hate YT. This was an economic decision at around the time when ad revenue had just fallen off of a cliff.