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A comment on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by crop_rotation on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:01PM (#38062132)
Hosting is very expensive, e.g https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-cr...

That is why almost nobody bothers to do it themselves outside of big tech.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by meindnoch on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:05PM (#38062181)
No it's not. Just use PeerTube.
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by inemesitaffia on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:50AM (#38066703)
No you don't. There's Bunny CDN though
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by trimethylpurine on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:14AM (#38066237)
I've personally run servers for several businesses in the streaming education space. And one business that serves over 40,000 concurrent connections. The entire business fits into 1.5 racks at a local DC. The monthly cost is under $5,000 for the service, space, and cooling. There is an initial cost to purchase some servers, switches, etc. I'd be surprised if Khan academy had much more than that many active connections. It's really just not that expensive, no matter how much AWS wants to sell you on that falsehood.
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