• @[email protected]
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    272 years ago

    The ad revenue is a portion of what the advertisers paid.

    YouTube DOES get its content for free. They pay YouTubers per view, essentially a portion of profit, whereas something like Netflix pays for the creation of content and then also a portion of profit made.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Who pays for the severs and billions of gigabytes of storage required to hold all those videos?

        • @[email protected]
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          -22 years ago

          How much data left is there to sell about me? Pretty sure they know pretty much everything about us already.

          My surfing habits change a little, but it’s mostly cyclical.

          • dtc
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            12 years ago

            They don’t need new data to sell, they just find a new client who doesn’t have your info yet.

      • Richard
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        32 years ago

        The point is that that’s in their own interest, because if they wouldn’t host it, they wouldn’t make any money.

      • @[email protected]
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        -22 years ago

        Source on it being billions? All I could find was that they get 76PB/yr, which doesn’t add up to multiple EBs.