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I dont use google search, browser or mobile. But youtube is inescapable.

I do use google search, browser, and mobile. I do not use youtube.

YouTube is only inescapable if you're addicted to video entertainment.

Fortunately, I am.

You probably already do, but you should use uBlock Origin or the chrome extension Clear Skies to skip ads...... .| .|

Also, get outside more.

In 1988, IBM had similar qualities.

As do a trail of other corporate corpses.

And IBM is still around.

It's a safe bet that they will win. I see a lot of handwringing about bad responses from Gemini or the slowness to roll out ChatGPT competitor but with Gemini 1.5 they're caught up and in a much better position than others going forward because they have the infra (I think probably by far the lowest costs on this side compared to Microsoft, OpenAI, etc.), the data, and the researchers (just in terms of #s)