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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

They have a literal monopoly on the service and the analytical data the sell makes more money then advertising ever could.

[-] Vince@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't doubt that they sell data, but it would have to be monumental to actually fund all their hosting needs.

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