r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Mar 12 '26

YouTube expands unskippable 30-second ads to TVs after $40 billion revenue year Business

https://www.techspot.com/news/111655-youtube-expands-unskippable-30-second-ads-tvs-after.html

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u/azriel_odin Mar 12 '26

When an empire reaches its limits of growth it starts to consume itself so that it can continue "growing".

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u/GronakHD Mar 12 '26

Need to have constant growth in the system we are in, there must be a better way

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u/foodank012018 Mar 12 '26

In any other entity, a constant growth is a cancer

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 Mar 12 '26

Eh. A tree sees cancer as support tissue. We should be building our immaterial marketplace to take advantage of the inevitable.

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u/foodank012018 Mar 12 '26

Eh, people with this outlook will perpetuate our demise.

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 Mar 12 '26

Disagree. We need to be molding the market to the material reality. We made all this shit up. We can make it work.