While I think this may play a part, YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now. It’s not greedy to want to pay server costs
YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now
Directly unprofitable. They don’t make money off the service directly, but the massive amount of data harvesting they do feeds their ad algorithms elsewhere.
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 11 months ago
While I think this may play a part, YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now. It’s not greedy to want to pay server costs
JamesFire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Directly unprofitable. They don’t make money off the service directly, but the massive amount of data harvesting they do feeds their ad algorithms elsewhere.