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My bigger complaint is that there isn't another choice. It is Google's choice to spend that much money, and it should be the consumer's choice to use the better product if they make a bad experience with ads... Antitrust Google to fuck so competition can make sure there's a better choice
I think the consolidation of smaller websites in favor of everything being on a handful of private platforms (eg: facebook, google) is a big loss.
Like, if you're a small band you should be able to host your handful of music videos on your own site. But then you don't get all the network effects and discoverability, I guess. Federation might be a solution.
Maybe also breaking google up would help, but left unattended things would merge back into a monopoly eventually.