Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video
speaker_hat@lemmy.one 6 months ago
I also felt like lately there are too much ads on videos.
YouTube Ads alone yielded $31B profit for Google in 2023.
YouTube Ads is not going to disappear, unfortunately.
corbin@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Revenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.