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Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes.

I have only one of their services that I do not see replaced any time soon. YouTube. What they do there is impressive, and very, very hard to replicate.

Not a fan of YouTube, don't get me wrong. But I see nothing comparable out there (maybe AWS, but they just run some infrastructure orchestration).

Google will kill YouTube long before anybody else is able to pull off the same stunt.

Or is there a service comparable for video streaming?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Nebula.tv is great, but won't replace all of YouTube.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Been using Newpipe/Pipepipe for the longest time, but Google has been screwing with the Youtube API so the Newpipe Extractor hasn't been working properly for the last two updates. Can't keep a video playing in the background for long, can't download OPUS audio files, playlist albums from YouTube Music are still iffy.

Genuinely about to switch to Nebula or Peertube. Fuck Google, I hope Pichai dies.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Those are just YouTube clients, though. The 1st-party YouTube client apps are pretty widely regarded as crappy, but they are far from the main problem. The YouTube content and its distribution are almost totally unmatched and almost certainly operate at a loss. Google is uniquely willing and able to operate it that way because it adds more value to their other business units than it costs them.