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Re:To YouTube: I'd gladly pay you if your website was de-blo... by whateveracct on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:33AM (#37938448)
I'm building a locally hosted app I use to download videos async. So the downside is I can't watch videos instantly. The upside is I can't be advertised to.

You realize YT isn't special, right? They are piggybacking on user content more than users are on their infra.

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Re:To YouTube: I'd gladly pay you if your website was de-blo... by anon-3988 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:21AM (#37939567)
I think being able to host petabytes upon petabytes of videos and serving them at a pretty good speed is pretty special.

> They are piggybacking on user content more than users are on their infra.

Are you sure? How many people host their own content now? People that do that will soon become irrelevant because for half of humanity YT is THE video hosting site with the rest being Huabao, niconico or something. So in that regard it is special.

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