Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video

theshonen8899@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m a software engineer at AWS and work on video content delivery for services like Netflix. The idea that one single ad could cover the cost of delivering a video that’s been replicated in multiple servers, multiple forgets, multiple countries throughout the world is pretty hilarious. No matter how much money you think YouTube is making I can almost guarantee it’s not enough. There is a reason there is no significant competition in this space, it makes no money.

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