@j @alyx mozilla might get wrapped up in the google antitrust suit now
@s8n @alyx oh they already have. 80% of their revenue comes from having Google as the default search engine in Firefox and a judge has already ruled that is going to be ending. IIRC Mozilla has about 8 months before that runs out.
@j @alyx @s8n mozilla employees are gonna be forced to put the fries in the bag
@PurpCat @alyx @s8n Google told the judge it doesn't think they have to sell Chrome. They REALLY don't want to give up Chrome.
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@j @PurpCat @alyx @s8n I'll offer them a deal. Keep chrome, but give up YouTube

@j @PurpCat @alyx @beardalaxy yeah youtube is destroyed, it's already in the irrecoverable slide. Wocjicki killed it dead

@j @PurpCat @alyx @s8n nobody wants YouTube, but everyone wants to be YouTube and as long as YouTube exists, that can't happen

@j @PurpCat @beardalaxy @s8n
Nobody has the resources to keep YouTube going. Doesn't help that the platform is a mess. Everybody complains how much disk space the video content uploaded to YouTube costs, but at the same time YT offers a shitload of codecs and encode qualities for video and audio.

Streaming on YT is probably a disaster for them. Everything gets re-encoded several times over. You get one realtime transcode to h264 during streaming, and then once finished it gets reencoded again to h264, then to vp9, and maybe even av1. With resolutions from 1080p down to 144p.
YouTube's inefficiency drives me up the walls every time I think about it. If you want to see me rage, just mention "YouTube codecs". Heck, just mention YouTube...

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