• Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I mean, they didn’t get greedy, as far as everyone knows they are losing a ton of money (at least if you can extrapolate anytbing from the fact that twitch is massively unprofitable)

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      10 months ago

      Pretty sure YouTube has already been declared to be profitable. But frankly I’m pretty suspicious of claims of unprofitability for services being run for over a decade. Why would any for-profit company bankroll them if it wasn’t worth it? There has to be some creative accounting going on.

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        10 months ago

        Doubt it, if it was profitable, they would be announcing that to everyone as loud as they could. Besides, if twitch is unprofitable, I doubt that google is in a much better situation

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      10 months ago

      If they want to, they can go 100% paywalled. But I guess people like to conveniently forget that YouTube wants to double-dip.

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      10 months ago

      That was the initially when YouTube was created. Everyone knows that Google has no problem cancelling anything that’s not profitable.

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        10 months ago

        If it was profitable, then why did google stop posting the financial statistics for YouTube

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          10 months ago

          to get the benefit of the doubt on unpopular decisions. Same thing with hiding thumbs down counter from videos.