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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alphabet spent $70 billion on stock repurchases last year. Their server costs aren't a problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It's not that they couldn't burn billions of dollars for the betterment of society. It's that obviously they won't. If YouTube weren't supposed to be profitable it wouldn't exist.