I think advertisers haven't adapted well to the youtube market at all. They're still operating under the TV model where ad breaks are an expected part of the tv viewing experience and don't understand that on youtube they are intrusive as hell . This also couples negatively with advertisers viewing youtube apparently not putting any limits on ad length as an opportunity to deliver a sermon. I think most people would be annoyed but not totally put off by a couple 15 seconds ads but the issue is that users just have no idea if they'll get a 15 second ad or a 15 minute ad so they skip everything out of extreme frustration with the entire experience.

Because who remembers everything they've said? I do what?

It's really a shame that we are destroying or have destroyed so many sites like these for (relatively) short sighted dam building.

Pretty much any place you build in Europe, you would have to disturb a historical site. We can abandon the earth to its past, or move on. As population grows, we don't have much choice?

Agreed, I'm curious what they are actually working on with a team like that. Although they do have a not unsubstantial physical data center presence so I think a fair number of engineers are in support of that and not software engineers.

"engineers" is a pretty nebulous term these days though.

> I wonder if the reason will make it through the corporate fog

I really doubt it. Given the change control policies of huge corps and how awful it is to get anything new/get rid of anything they'll just toe the zoom party line and keep it.

Pro: It's faster

Con: There are still issues being worked out, support seems to be staying on top of it though.