alt Hacker NewsYoutube launched 1 year and 8 months before being acquired by google.... It's largely semantics to say that what Youtube is today, isn't a direct result of Google's ownership for nearly 20 years now....
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grg0 • yesterday at 7:43 PM
Google had Google Video and couldn't hold up, that's why they bought Youtube.
sdevonoes • yesterday at 7:54 PM
What YT is now:
- ads every now and then
- addictive shorts no one needs
- suggested videos nobody asked for
- geo ban of videos
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strictnein • yesterday at 7:36 PM
Huh? It's not semantics to point out that a project wasn't launched by Google, when the point was about a successful project launch from Google.
From talking to someone that worked at YouTube for 15 years, they still had a lot of core Python code in 2016 that was legacy from the OG company/team and that code needed to be transitioned to follow the Google way of doing things in C++/Go.
I don't think it was distinct enough from the Google culture like Android was at the start of the acquisition but it seems they had leeway to do their own thing.