Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser
cm0002@lemmy.world 8 hours agoYT is the one mixed, on one hand, the ads are annoying AF if you’re not premium and they’re becoming more user hostile towards ad blocking every day
But on the other hand, hosting and providing bandwidth for video is not cheap. Hosting and providing bandwidth AND allowing users to upload whatever they want no matter the length (I think there’s a limit of 10 hours, which is MORE than generous IMO) OR quality (seriously, who even has the setup to watch 8k videos lol) is REALLY NOT CHEAP
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
YouTube also lost billions for years and years. Not certain they’ve turned an overall profit yet.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
I’m guessing it probably does. It brings in like $30,000,000,000+ a year. What it actually costs to run is seemingly a closely guarded secret, but I’d probably say it’s a fair amount less than the thirty billion, since they aren’t having to pay a third party company or anything for hosting any of it.