Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • kick_out_the_jams
    -11•1 year ago

    video hosting is extremely expensive

    Year over year I’m pretty sure the cost has only gone down.

    TBF 4k and higher resolutions are more common but it’s generally not nearly as expensive as it once was.

    • @IAmHidingEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      The cost for 1TB has gone down, the total cost is going up because of the crazy amounts of uploaded content. Youtube is getting more and more expensive.

    • TygrEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Storage cost has gone down. Bandwidth costs are way up.