Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months agoOh no, what?? Youtube has to pay to keep the thousands of free hours of content it harvests daily??? Oh gosh, why didnt you say so? God forbid there be upkeep costs for being given content worth literally millions of dollars in entertainment value, production cost, and overall manhours absolutely scott free!
Oh side note, did you know of all the areas of tech, data compression and storage have progressed as one of the fastest? You can fit a terrabyte and more into a card the side of your pinkie, with no loss of quality or information.
Gee wizz, I wonder if the largest company on the internet who makes money not really by running ads but actually by scraping and selling user data knows about that?
Crocodile tears, dude. No one gives a shit about the upkeep costs, google will happily pay the pennies it costs to maintain in exchange for more user data patterns they can sell. The ads are a garnish to buff out the yearly portfolio.
Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net 11 months ago
lol i knew this was coming.
i love how youve reduced global content delivery with hundreds of millions of users down to “oh you can fit a tb in an sd card.” just so you can sound like an insufferable and extremely ignorant prick.
its already known thanks to their quarterly earnings reports that Youtube’s main contributor of profit is its targeted ads, which is due in part to how it collects usere data.
what an entitled idiot lol. But please, continue. Whats your next stupid take.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Youtube the subsidiary, yeah. Because youtube the subsidiary does not do any data selling. Alphabet does. Alphabet is also the ones paying for every single step in the youtube process.
Because they make their money selling data. Not ads.
For someone telling others to educate themselves on the topic, you really dont understand how corporate earnings works, huh?
Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net 11 months ago
can you provide a source for alphabet paying for youtubes operating costs? i work for a subsidiary of a different rather large it consulting company (80k+ members) and we very much do and have our own budgeting.
odd that alphabet would pay for youtube’s operating costs since youtube operates at a multi-billion dollar profit.
and i apologize for presuming youre not educated. some of your comments just do not align with my experience in the industry.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Not a source I can cite without risking a friends job, which isnt worth an internet argument.
Alphabet wants youtube making profit, obviously, but they are a data selling business. They didnt buy youtube up because they wanted a cut of their ad market. They shunt data upstream like its their primary job. And from my understanding? Thats exactly how youtube is viewed internally.
So, yeah, Im not really pressed about ad blockers. The company has no funding issues.