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A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless you spin off Youtube along with the ad business into their own company, YouTube dies. It is in no way self-sufficient without the ad network that literally supports it.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m happy enough with the discourse being „how would we chop Google into pieces”, I know my dream is probably just a dream haha.

YouTube is probably the biggest streaming service out there. They’d have no issues negotiating a sweet deal with some ad company, former Google or other. As of now most YouTube users are products sold to advertisers so we’d benefit from adjusting this a bit too.