Re:Break Up Google
by markdown on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:59AM
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If those costs were high they'd have long ago banned the spam accounts that upload autogenerated garbage.
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"[In Q3 2018] YouTube removed about 1.67 million channels and all of the 50.2 million videos that were available from them. Nearly 80% of the channel takedowns related to spam uploads, YouTube said."
https://www.businessinsider.com/r-youtube-under-pressure-for...
The remaining 20% were apparently taken down due to nudity and other policy violations.
To be clear: I have no idea whether they're profitable or not. Just pointing out this article.