How can google afford storing 6 hour 4k 60 fps videos nobody will ever watch again for free?
No one knowsWhen they released gmail with 1gb for free microsoft was charging large sub fees for 1 month of 5mb storage.
they literally couldn't until premium was introduced. youtube was hemorrhaging money. if you pay for youtube you're financing this bullshit.
>>109248307They get funding from glowniggers. Same way we keep the lights on here.
It's probably 8 versions of the video too, in all resolutions and vp9 and h254 and av1
>>109248307Business pay them millions of dollars to have their name pop up as a search ad even when it would have been the first result anyway
>>109248380wouldn't they make even more money if they didn't waste it storing garbage?
>>109248404some % of worlds hdd factories are dedicated to supplying these cloud providers who pre-order petabytes of storage years in advanceStoring the data is masked in the margins of tens of billions of adrev google makes
>>109248364google can buy the usa
>>109248307>old YouTube videos died for this
>>109248369Nah they probably park a heavily compressed version of the vid on some server in Kazakhstan and only if it gets traffic will they temporarily cache other versions on their CDN nodes
>>109248307>againAnon, they're storing a very large number of such videos that nobody will ever watch even for the first time.
>>109248363youtube has always been making money. even if by itself youtube does not pay for it's servers, the data gathered and the influence potential of it's recommendation algorithm makes google a lot of money.
>>109248307>Roel Van de Paar
>>109248307they eventually won'tand it will be catastrophic
>>109248307That fascist doesn't deserve to eat Chik Fil AHe should give it to the homeless and needyHe's a fan of Touche Amore and they hate his guts
they're not actually serving you 4k video.You're watching upscaled and heavily compressed 480-720
>>109248307Totally by coincidence, hard drives are unaffordable.
>>109249102Source?Estimates based on SEC data show between 50 to 60 billion REVENUE, not profit.They have to pay for their ever expanding massive infrastructure plus all the monetized youtubers plus taxes and employees.I’m not saying that they aren’t profitable, I doubt they’re swimming in money either.
>>109248307>yewgleYou answered your own question. The fed prints money for them and your grocery bill goes up.
>>109253189youtube's goal is to collect data, so google can sell it to data brokers. then data brokers hire google to show ads to every body, based on their youtube history.so youtube is sowing, and google ads is reaping. google ads owes part it's profits to youtubeyoutube is also used by google for influence. recently the british government tried to crack down on recommendation algorithm, mainly to prevent recommending harmful content to vulnerable people. youtube sent a message to every uk content creator calling them to take action against this new legislation.the law clearly states that they want to force youtube to recommend higher quality content, instead of slop.
>>109248307>>109253189Youtube's margins are probably low but it doesn't really matter. Having control over huge social media sites is valuable for reasons other than direct income.
>>109248307They like owning THE video hosting site.They plan to monetize it further. Slowly moving towards breaking even.Like Microsoft and Meta, they're going to have video uploading/streaming/calling services anyway. They're just under a bigger umbrella.They connect Youtube and its data collection with their other products and services, including serving ads to you.They deny the above to their competitors.A more interesting question is why are there popular porn tube sites hosting 10gb+ 4k video files for free with zero monetization? For years without change. What is the incentive? It must cost a fortune.Not shilling. This example gets linked on this site and elsewhere frequently. I'm very curious. It must be way too absurdly expensive for a simple ad partnership or something.
>>109248307extreme levels of compression, offloading content that never gets viewed to dirt cheap cold storage, and putting advertisements all over the fucking place for normies who don't know what adblock is
>>109248357i have a pretty good idea
>>109248307google isn't about money, it's about influence.
>>109248439can we too?
>>109248724AV1/other codec is already as compressed as it can be. It doesn't compress down any more without lossily losing quality. That still means keeping that data somewhere. Huge amounts of data
>>109254116Also this. Why would you let spotify freeloaders migrate to ytm? The ytm margins are so nonexistent in the grand scale of things that they could have all of the "premium" features (so what blocking ads?) for free as a loss leader just to siphon them from Spotify away and still be well off. Youtube premium duh nigga they literally have to bundle it as GOOGLE ONE now with gemini and all of the other services to have someone consider giving them money
>>109248357>No one knowshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
>>109254118We live in a world where perverts will literally buy entire islands and fly their friends there just to get off to illicit material.I imagine someone like that would be willing to run a porn website just for the benefit of having people send them porn forever at the cost of storing it.
>>109254578YouTube lowers video quality over time if it's not popular.
>>109248363You're financing a lot of good things too.
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>>109254626>>109254130>extreme levels of compression
>>109248357Because Google had those fat near 0% loans that let them throw money at things?
>>109255255Have you ever looked closely at the quality of your "4k video" on Youtube?
>be me>upload my multi-gigabyte longplays of retro games>lossless and upscaled to 4k>no one watch them>even meI still feel like they are ripping me off for giving them free content to stream
