I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

  • sab
    10•1 year ago

    I’m generally the first to criticize Google, but when it comes to pushing ads on YouTube I’m having a hard time really condemning them for it. I struggle to wrap my head around how this service can exist at all.

    Also, second to direct transactions, I’d much rather have Google make money through ads than anything else.

    • 🇺🇦 Max UL
      6•1 year ago

      Agreed, I pay for YouTube premium and in the world of corporate crap and fees and stuff I’m ok with that value trade off relatively. Hell, I would have paid for Reddit, too, if they weren’t assholes.

      Edit: I mistyped Google premium instead of YouTube premium… same place though of course

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Issue has become that in this era of business you could drop 100k on a car and they’ll still data mine information on you and record you. So you really only paid to be less annoyed, but the tracking remains a core part of the system.

        Now some stuff like proton email do make privacy a part of their business, but that is becoming rarer. Everyone is the product by default no matter how much money they pay for a service these days.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      They’ll make it through data collection too even if you pay for premium. You are still the product even if you pay in this era.