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For me, they'll only open up as a fob to the regulators to stop more meaningful disposals. The revenue upside of opening up YT is negligible compared to the strategic impact on their AdTech ecosystem. Advertisers have to have a Google product today but not in an open world. Worth noting YT already stage the opening up of new placements/platforms/Geos etc to dampen the inflationary effects of increasing demand - eCPM payouts to creators only go down in the long run. Agree with Richard re: data access.
Tom, a few flaws in this piece IMHO -
1) it seems highly unlikely there are advertisers (Google would have the largest number alongside Meta) that would be brought incrementally to YT. I struggle to think TTD or Yahoo has a major buyer that does not also work w Google;
2) the value of YT inventory is intrinsically linked to the wider data Google collects on logged-in users (or infers probalistically where users are not logged-in), and draws upon Search history, location, etc. How could those other DSPs be competitive in "decisioning" without that data?
3) From a regulatory perspective, what need does Google have to open up, any more than any other FAST content provider is obliged to sell via agents?
4) Finally, you have not considered the downsides and costs of providing access to that inventory and the risk others "sniff the bidstream" just to compare pricing and likely value. Google would be giving away a lot for nothing guaranteed.
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Google Won’t Let You Learn About Holistic Health
Since 2017, in a major Google update, everyone who publishes “alternative health” content lost 60%, 80%, or more of their organic search.
Around the 2017 mark, I noticed the “no availability” of my normal searches for holistic and/or Functional Med folks that I’d been following during earlier years. Suddenly they were gone. As an example, Dr. Mercola, who I was following pretty closely at the time (not so much these days) was nowhere to be found. I would tell my family, “See what they’re doing? The search engines have pushed out the healthy information. It’s all about supporting Big Pharma.” It made me angry then - and it makes me just as angry now. Like you said, it’s up to us to keep passing along everything we know and learn to the next generations any way we can.
What you write here seems to me to say as much about "the public" as it does about Google.
As a member of the public, I greatly appreciate the problem, having been fooled myself so many times over my decades, beginning long before there was a public Internet. And yet, at least most of the time, I wasn't fooled forever. If there are matters where I still am, I don't know that yet, but Internet search engines, while posing an obstacle for those seeking convenience, have never been a solid barrier for those seeking truth. A porous barrier, perhaps. Seeking convenience, however, rather than seeking truth _is_ a barrier, a very solid one.
My foundational knowledge about holistic health stems from being involved with a cult, when I was growing up in the 1960s, particularly in my teens -- because my mother was part of it -- and as an adult from being a member of other cults teaching about many topics, health being prominent among them. I could never recommend these organizations even if they still existed (they mostly don't) because they had huge problems, but their problems did not include public group think to any great degree. They were counter cultural.
In my experience, then, there is always a way around barriers to discovering truth. But you have to want it, badly. If you live for comfort and convenience you will pay a price, and it won't prove comfortable or convenient. That's a public problem.
Studying health should impress upon us how incredibly well engineered life is, and how well it can function when not being sabotaged, or even when it is. This thing we call life is not a product of random chance. We know intuitively that randomness does not produce higher and higher degrees of order. Rather it produces corruption and decay, all "scientific" fairy tales to the contrary aside. Higher order must originate from even higher order. And what we are did not come into being out of nothing. We know intuitively that out of nothing comes nothing. Otherwise it isn't "nothing".
Why, then, among those people who lately have been learning the hard way that they can't "trust the science", do most still trust it in matters pertaining to our origin and purpose? What an error! It's time to let go of that, and then pass the word on.
In my old age I have found, with what's left of me after 74 years of life enclosing 28 years of cults spread over 50 years, a better way to learn about essential truth that has been hidden. I ask, expecting answers, and answers come. It worked all along, but I didn't expect that, or even seem to notice let alone appreciate what was happening, and the answers were presented through cults -- hard lessons.
When practiced formally, however, this is called "prayer", and answers can come more directly and uncensored, though the lessons may still be hard. Such practice is no more strange than believing that our "something" made itself from nothing. Be careful what you put your faith in.
Try this, if you haven't already. It works better than Google.
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Also putting "download arc" on my to-do list. I am curious though, how do you deal with some features simply not working the same on other browsers? I tried switching to both DuckDuckGo and Mullvad but a lot of browser plugins (for VPN, ad blockers, password managers) are glitchy or non existent for alternative browsers. Not to mention, some features of Google Meets only work on Chrome 😓 they make it impossible to switch.
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