Brendan Eich

it's all about monetization right and there's two ways you can monetize and there's two ways that google can remedy the situation one is if you have a browser like brave and you send a lot of queries to google because you know half of our users let's say are still using google as a search engine so we send them a couple billion queries a month for which they don't pay us right oh yeah yeah we're talking about big numbers and one billion queries a month are coming to our browser but we get no mon

YouTube utterly depends on those mid-tier and small-tier creators still.

YouTube was not even deploying the unfair rules consistently.

YouTube should have just said to them, 'Listen, YouTube is a free-flowing community. If there is something you disagree with, let us know, and we will block you. We'll give you the tools so you can block that creator.' ... such a bonehead decision to say the people who are at the bottom rung should take it the hardest.

YouTube, I think, needs to have a really deep look at the relationship with content creators because what I thought was bizarre about what they did was they looked at the people who made the least, who had the least impact on the bottom line, and said, 'Let's exclude them.'

What does YouTube think of you? I think we're a fly going by their windscreen because we're small, but they have demonetized or never monetized a lot of their mid-tier creators. And these are really creative people who have tens of millions of subscribers, and they've had their revenue cut just for using salty language or for no clear reason at all.

Even when they're on the precipice of being regulated and pulling a Microsoft, which you and I are students of history, like hey dummies, like do you really want your organization to be to spend three or four years in hell? They might have to go through it. Microsoft had to go through it. I think they And you know what happened? Bill Gates I mean, make broke Bill Gates's creativity and and love of business. And they put the sales guy in charge, which is never good. Jobs noted that about IBM with

In Microsoft's case, they wanted to go back from the web toward Windows lock-in with Windows Vista, if you remember that. They felt punished by the antitrust case. They'd been convicted of abusing their OS monopoly to take over an adjacent market. They felt tired of web standards work, and they said, 'Let's just put the browser, Internet Explorer 5 or 6, on a skeleton crew.' And it really got bad.

YouTube was not even deploying the unfair rules consistently. Were they trying to help the old media versus the new new media?

It's like Google SEO, and Matt Cutts used to be there. They changed the black box and Yeah, trust me, I know about it. out of business.

to Google, which is sucking up all that Chrome information and putting it in the cloud. It's putting in the cloud, and in fact they are sucking your browser history by default if you sign into Chrome in the upper right.

And there's a notoriously big ad blocker, Adblock Plus, and a few others that have followed it that charge Google to let certain ads through. Now, they say those ads meet objective acceptable ads criteria, but they still get paid big bucks. So, they This is hilarious. So, Adblocker Plus built up the largest ad blocker in the world in Chrome extensions and other places. Firefox first. Firefox first. Yep. And then sold out to Google to allow them to let their ads through with this fugazi claim tha

if you build inside Google's ecosystem, which is the Chrome extension store, you will eventually have Google You'll be controlled by Google essentially.