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Ask HN: What do you think would happen if Google and YouTube split?

26 points·by Gemdation·2 ปีที่แล้ว·77 comments

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Gemdation
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> The best thing Fandom could do for the community is close forever.

Ironically, the community of wiki admins there wouldn't like that as it would kill their community. What other platform easily hosts free wikis?
Gemdation
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
He was also targeted by Google's automated system? Odd, he was not so lucky.

> My only worry has been that it seems like another product that Google could easily decide to kill off and send to the Google graveyard at any moment.

I feel the same way about Blogger, and I even had a page on Blogger that was banned after I signed in on their Android app. This was around 2020-2021 and I only requested a manual approval by an email button IIRC, that got that page back up as fast as it got taken down.

It is sad that Google Voice and Blogger are neglected enough for this to happen.
Gemdation
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I wouldn't be surprised if it is powered by something Microsoft-made, or anything else for that matter.

Their web browsers are just web view wrappers, their search engine itself is just Bing.
Gemdation
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> Google took the Justice Department's hint, responding to last Monday's filing with a blog post contending that "splitting off Chrome or Android would break them—and many other things."

Quick question, (I think) if YouTube and Google split, which userbase would get to keep their purchased content (Movies & TV)? This has been bugging me since a lot of Google services are connected in some way. IIRC you shouldn't be able to purchase new content on Google TV platforms.
Gemdation
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
One of the commenters was thinking the same thing as me

> People are going to only read the headline and interpret it as “discontinue”. Like the article says, it just means they have enough inventory until they replace it with something cheaper. [https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/report-apple-may-stop-p...]

I wonder how Apple would go through with this, hopefully with a better form.
Gemdation
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I feel the need to correct a misconception, of course. Yes I am aware of the Firefox and uBlock Origin combo.
Gemdation
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'd like to remind everyone that you can still block ads with such Chromium browsers that are deprecating Manifest V3. Extensions include AdGuard and uBlock Origin Lite.

What this changes is that (adblocking) extensions are losing some permissions (like manually picking out elements to block, web requests to update the block lists, etc).