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      10 months ago

      Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one. Which is a huge chunk of why no real competition has surfaced.

      It’s one thing to set up a proverbial store with prices so low you choke out the competition. It’s another thing to essentially pay your customers to come in, either by literally paying them or by providing a service that they pay below actual cost for.

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        Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one.

        That’s probably why it’s getting enshittified so quickly.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, but that one is replaceable if people want too.

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          Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it

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            YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.

            Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.

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              10 months ago

              So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s

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                No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.

                What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn’t count)

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                    It’s also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer

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                The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.

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                    Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.

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        10 months ago

        Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.