• Lysergid@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      I agree but im not drawing the comparison. The meme is drawing that comparison I am just saying why I dont think its so ridiculous for youtube to run more ads than a piracy site.

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        3 months 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