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Frustrating yes. Disgusting no. YouTube is provided to you as a free service and advertisers pickup the tab. Google paid over $1B for YouTube and people upload
by tjmc 13y ago
Frustrating yes. Disgusting no. YouTube is provided to you as a free service and advertisers pickup the tab.
Google paid over $1B for YouTube and people upload over 10 new hours of video every minute. Did you honestly expect they'd wear that kind of expense for ever?
- ars_technician 13y agoThe ads are mainly to spur content creation by the uploaders, not to foot google's bill.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoIs YouTube even profitable yet? A few years later, despite being one of the most visited websites on the internet, it still was at a loss I think.