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[–] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they've achieved that they can do what they like. Don't feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I never felt bad abt that for a second. Like the thought never crossed my kind XD FUCK YOUTUBE!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

FYI, this is currently happening with Uber.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?