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Re:De-googling, so far by marcosdumay on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:05PM (#40539629)
It's not inherently a money pit.

Google and Facebook have a complete oligopoly over the ads market and are manipulating it so nobody else can prosper.

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Re:De-googling, so far by hot_gril on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:25PM (#40539830)
It seems like inherently a money pit to me. Was Google even profiting off it before they started cramming in ads and offering YT Premium?
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Re:De-googling, so far by malfist on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:26PM (#40539833)
Serving video data to, potentially, billions of users is absolutely expensive.

You can't, "in a weekend" a youtube clone that can stand up to the first viral hit.

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Re:De-googling, so far by skeledrew on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:51PM (#40541157)
That's what BitTorrent is for. The main issue with torrenting is that non-viral content is going to have very low availability.
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