Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by lancesells on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:07PM (#27869783)

Think of how different everything would be if YouTube wasn't a part of Google. They would no doubt have ads but the entire Google universe wouldn't have access to the viewing habits of 2 billion people.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by Pako on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:18PM (#27869829)

It also probably wouldn't exist anymore. last time I heard anything about it YouTube was in the red and only sustained with income from other Google services. (I might be wrong on that, if so please correct me)

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by IX-103 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @09:22PM (#27870105)

I heard that Google was able to get it to break even after a substantial investment to improve efficiency (custom ASICs for transcoding, machine learning models for prioritizing allocation of storage and computing resources).

I think I agree that it probably wouldn't exist. Not very many companies would invest that much to just to break even.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by ExtraE on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:21PM (#27869843)

Haven’t checked if this is a reputable source, but:

https://www.tubics.com/blog/youtube-revenue/

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by Rd6n6 on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:36AM (#27879299)

I forget the source, but years ago I tried to look it up and it seemed that YouTube was extremely profitable

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