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[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

Or... do both. Buy premium because you are actually getting something for your money... a platform. And support ad blockers to stop the ads where the product is just a webpage.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah. I'm actually okay with paying for a service I use daily. Google does a bunch of evil shit to drive its advertising business, but the reality is that nothing is free and somebody has to pay somewhere.

We can pay with money or we can pay with ads and personal data.

What I would like to see is a law banning data collection for paid accounts. Because right now Google datarapes you even when you pay.

[-] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

How do you explain wikipedia ?

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago

Good loving people pay for it because they want it to be available to everyone in the world and it's running costs are pretty low.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Wikipedia isn't video hosting. The angles of nenual hosting cost for Wikipedia is around 3 million a year. YouTube probably costs nearly as much per hour to keep running.

500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's gonna be like 60 terrabytes every hour just in storage space increases.

If you were to try and host that on a cloud server like AWS the cost would increase millions of dollars every day. Google self-hosted, but it's still unfathomingly expensive. There's still questions over whether YouTube profitable even with all the ads and the subscriptions.