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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by wslh »

yyyfb wrote: post #45

Next time you're thinking "I wish I was the one who had made a billion dollars with my startup idea", remember that only health and family matter, and to have fun while you're alive. RIP. Edit: some people misinterpreted my comment. I'm just one anonymous voice on the Internet, but am deeply saddened by the passing of Susan Wojcicki, who meant a lot to me as one of the many people who crossed paths with her professio…

Your message is very powerful, for the good, and I think people nowadays are used to extremes instead of the balance when they read something like your comment.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by AbstractH24 »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #190
AbstractH24 wrote: post #178

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They weren't being funny, that is a strange mix to OD on

By and large overdose is a result of irrational thinking, or misguided attempts to apply logic. So it doesn’t make sense to make judgements about or apply ration to the drugs someone ODs on.

Also, it doesn’t seem so weird for someone to try and mix uppers and downers. And those are all commonly abused drugs.

For those reasons, I can only assume this comment was a poor attempt at sarcasm and/or humor.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by darby_nine »

paxys wrote: post #192
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube has worked well. However, I did try their YT Premium, for a while, and was incredibly disappointed in their UI. I assume that the Premium UI was designed for people that use their free tier, but is very strange, to folks like me, who come from other paid services. But I am likely not their target audience. I suppose that YT Premium does well.

There is no "Premium UI". Premium is simply regular YouTube without ads.

I think maybe the above poster is referencing the music product, but that's just a guess.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by Aunche »

xanderlewis wrote: post #106
TMWNN wrote: post #102

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>Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN Who? Who has a negative opinion about YouTube? The occasional "My kids watch too much of it" != "mixed opinions" about the site in general.

A lot of YouTubers have been very critical of YouTube’s approach to things and treatment of creators in the past. Also, just as an example, YouTube demonetises (and therefore effectively punishes) you for using words like ‘suicide’ so now we have to say silly things like ‘unalive’ — at least until Google/the advertisers catch on. These days YouTube is more censored than traditional TV.

YouTube doesn't print money out of thin air. They make money by making advertisers happy, and advertisers will only buy ads if their customers are happy. This isn't anything new either. Creatives have always been beholden to censorship boards in traditional media too, which are typically much stricter. The fact that you so many YouTubers make money from criticizing YouTube is evidence of how much YouTubers don't understand their own privilege.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

yzydserd wrote: post #218
lchengify wrote: post #73

Was shocked to hear this news. I worked for Google years ago but I was in the NYC office, so we didn't run into the YouTube folks much. Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN, but it is objectively one of the most successful businesses in tech or media to emerge in the past 15 years. If it weren't buried inside Alphabet, Youtube would be worth on the order of $400 billion, more than Disney and Comcast combine…

> I've probably watched tens of thousands of hours of YouTube at this point. More than 20,000 hours over at most 18 years is at least 3 hours per day on average. That’s a lot of watching.

The average person spends 5 hours/day on their phone and it’s likely most of it is passive watching (YouTube, TikTok, etc). So 3 hours/day doesn’t sound like too much.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

darby_nine wrote: post #223
paxys wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no "Premium UI". Premium is simply regular YouTube without ads.

I think maybe the above poster is referencing the music product, but that's just a guess.

No, it was the movie channel. I tried it out, because YT Premium had a particular show I wanted to see.

The biggest issue that I had, was that I couldn't find shows that I wanted to see. YT kept shoving a bunch of stuff into the UI that I wasn't interested in. All my searches were littered with results that were not relevant to me. I suspect they were paid.

The Apple App Store has the same problem. It's infuriating.

Listen, I apologize for diverting from the real issue, that a tech luminary died young. I did not know her, but it sounds like she was popular, and did well.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by [deleted] »

tsimionescu wrote: post #170
sytelus wrote: post #166

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YouTube is absolutely the business that is resting on laurels, just like Google Maps and Gmail. Sometime I wonder if these products have any real active development teams at all besides ads. YouTube massively screwed with users by forcing poorly executed botched migration to YouTube Music. Even outsiders can see that this was entirely internal Google politics which powerful people like Wojcicki should have been able…

> It never got around to incentivize creators to produce concise content and to this day creators keep producing massive 30 min diatribe that could have been done in 3 mins. Why on Earth would you want shorter videos? The best thing about YouTube is that it's one of the only places you can find quality medium-to-long-form content.

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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by supertrope »

edanm wrote: post #171
AmericanChopper wrote: post #161

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> It's also not a business that rested on it's laurels. I would say it’s more a business that rests on its monopolization of the market. As a product there’s plenty I like about YouTube, but it dominated the market through the use of many highly anti-competitive strategies, and has what many would consider (and what may well be proven to be) an illegal monopoly. You can’t deny its impact, but to give such high praise…

In what way is YouTube an illegal monopoly?

Leveraging YouTube's market share to hobble Windows Phone. https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-orders-microsoft-to-remove...

Carriage dispute with Roku. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/roku-reaches-agreement-with-...

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by s1artibartfast »

sva_ wrote: post #140
DanielleMolloy wrote: post #95

RIP. Her son just died early this year, from a drug overdose. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/31/marco-t...

> Troper's autopsy found high concentrations of cocaine, amphetamine, alprazolam (Xanax), What a strange mix.

The amphetamine is almost assuredly from the cocaine, so that just means they were doing coke and Xanax.

Xanax as a party drug is just strange in general.

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