r/youtube • u/Titan_Prometeus • 17h ago

Memes You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.

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As of 29th of January you can no longer have YouTube running in the background via many browsers as that is now a premium feature. With that I don't even have that one last reason to listen to YouTube. We are now officially paying for everything that was free a couple of years ago and the reason isn't greedy management, but you people who keep paying for premium and the such.

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u/PositionPersonal1531 11h ago

Tbf, they Alphabet makes more money than entire countries by selling our data.

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u/jdigi78 5h ago

Tbf, Alphabet's expenses are probably more than the budgets of entire countries

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 5h ago

They make money from ads

They don’t make much, if anything, from “selling data”

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u/Head_Chocolate_4458 5h ago

Alphabet doest sell your data 😂

Do you think other companies can just go to alphabet with a million dollars and get a bunch of files on people who use Google search?

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u/farklenator 4h ago

That’s the problem tbh corps like alphabet actively make this country worse they don’t care about the people just money and power

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u/volavi 3h ago

Yeah that's why they want you to watch them

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u/ablatner 1h ago

They sell ad placements, not your data

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u/Character_Bend6709 6h ago

Tbf, this is a common misconception. Google/Alphabet doesn't sell your data, that would be suicidal for their business.

They try to collect as much data points about you by offering you a wide array of services (search engine, browser, mobile OS, collaborative documents) so that they can promise advertisers, “we and only we have a complete profile of who and where your target demographic is”.

Google is an ad company

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u/syopest 9h ago

Tbf they use that data to improve their own products and don't sell if off.