Comment on Sorry lemmy but I have to ask?

• Nighed@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Video hosting is expensive.

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  • grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just as personal information is on a large scale. YouTube/Google/Alphabet chooses selling our information as their core business model. As far as I’m concerned, they “don’t care” about the money they get from YouTube Premium.

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    • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YouTube runs at a loss still I believe? Low res is probably supportable, but 4k etc gets expensive.

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      • grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree with you on that point: Video hosting is extremely expensive. This is why YouTube is basically a monopoly, despite most of its users being annoyed with it (I presume).

        And isolated, without the rest of Google and Alphabet, it may not be profitable, despite all of the ads it feeds us. But from my understanding, YouTube is yet another data aggregator Google uses to make money. Indirectly I bet YouTube is very valuable for Google, even if YouTube itself is not profitable.

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• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re call to live homeless in spite 🤷‍♂️

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  • grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why am I or would I be homeless? Because I don’t tip my Landlord?

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