Microsoft: Abusing our dominant position in the market? That's just Tuesday for us

Who is PG? Pelon Gusk?

That's depressing

Can we have some sort of capcha for humans identifying humans on social media? This is terribly required.

Cars go heavier but carrying the same number of passengers. Something ain't right.

What happened to HN? I have now heard HN silencing cetain posts multiple times. Is this enshittification?

I don't want to believe that coders like these exist and are this confident in an AI's ability to code.

Shareholders: 80% fired? Yay efficiency!

"The Time I Was Forced By The Government Into A Relationship With My Tsundere High-School Sweetheart"

I have a very sinking feeling that websites will be streamed in the future (SHTTPS) and it will be pioneered by Google :'(

Using a VPN to get a lower price on the subscription is not a service issue, that’s abuse of regional pricing, and no company would accept that.

The internet's most beloved company, Steam, also bans people for abusing the store using VPNs. So as much as I hate Google, i find nothing wrong with this.

It's not a pure monopoly by choice. While it's true Youtube has a monopoly in terms of number of creators, viewers and content, it's still not a profitable venture. I heard it was burning through money to keep up with the sheer amount of content they have to deal with. Youtube is doing all this monetization now because they have ran out of VC money and upper management decided that it needs to be self-sustaining. Even the obscene amount of data Alphabet is gathering from Youtube does not create enough revenue to generate profit. But it's a "too-big-to-fail" product now so Alphabet will continue to invest. Competitors saw all of this and just noped out.

Other commercial video services, like Nebula, have popped up but they are subscription-oriented right from the get-go, like Netflix. This means they have a very small audience and it will take years to build up an audience like Youtube. So I don't see them growing, at least in the near future.