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  • Lysergid@lemmy.mltome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, that’s on meme, I’m not accusing you of anything.

    On ridiculousness part let me politely disagree. They don’t need so much ads, their revenue was around 25 billion in 2023. There are no official numbers on costs but guesstimations I saw around 14 billion (infra plus operational) so they could lower number of ads to 2/3 and still be very much profitable. They just won’t because people accepted it


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    Nominally? For sure. What about per user? Maybe, or maybe Youtube uses more resources than it should.

    Also we are comparing different kind of platforms. Youtube is video sharing platform. Any “creative individual” can post there 24/7 any nonsense. Piracy sites are about licensed paid content, so comparison should be against say Netflix.

    Youtube’s competitor is PeerTube which has 0 ads whatsoever


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    What you are describing is alternative frontend, not a piracy site. Alternative frontends hold no unauthorized copy of content. They can potentially infringe copyright by claiming authorship of content. That would make them fall under piracy from the legal standpoint but I never seen such sites.

    Piracy normally implies content is physically located on site’s servers. This requires significant infrastructure for storage and content delivery.