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Google might still incur a net benefit from keeping viewers on their platform where they'll also watch monetized videos.

• crankylinuxuser 9y ago
  That's precisely it. "Social Media", be it facebook empire, twitter, twitch, google empire, amazon empire... They want mindshare. They want people to keep using it, millions of people. Because the bigger the number, the more they can use various ways to entrap people into those platforms. People keep saying that a demonetized video costs - the trivial bandwidth and storage of a deindexed video is miniscule. Yet, making people think they're the only game in town is all encompassing. You deal with them and their games and give them content, or you go away. And not only that, but when people put up videos, they're also giving Google/Alphabet free machine vision content. Which that is actually worth quite a bit because content's hard to just generate.