I didn’t say it’s charity. I said the video creator (who wants people to see their video) is receiving a service from the video host.
If they didn’t think they were receiving any benefit, they would just take that video down.
They don’t.
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DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoYouTube is willing to host a lot of videos that they make zero money from, at their expense
That’s just not true…they’re hosting it because they data-farm the living shit out of both the creator and anyone that gets tangentially close to their site. They make a lot of money on this data, even if no ads are shown on a video.
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Hosting your own video on your own storage and network bill is not free. If you don’t believe me, go try doing it yourself.
I know this is true but why do I see so many people on lemmy pushing for self-hosting and even talking about it like its some low rent hobby?
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not exactly an expensive hobby, but it’s also not free.
YouTube hosts a lot of videos.
And — by the fundamental theorem of financial calculus that I just made up — “not free” times “a lot” equals “big bucks”.
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 1 year ago
And — by the fundamental theorem of financial calculus that I just made up — “not free” times “a lot” equals “big bucks”.
Finally, someone who gets my idea of math.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Yeah, but they aren’t making nearly the amount of money on the video as they would with the ads, and no where near enough to compensate the creators beyond free hosting.
You can still publish demonetized content, just don’t expect to make money from it on YouTube.
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They use that data to sell ads at you across the entire internet. Google is making plenty of cash off those “demonitized” videos.