Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by mid-kid on Saturday July 04, 2026 @01:55PM (#48787355)

Youtube survives on google's massive repertoire of products being vastly more profitable, not because it's the best of its kind.

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by thx67 on Saturday July 04, 2026 @02:28PM (#48787601)

And free bandwdith. Free bandwidth is nice.

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by BetterThanSober on Saturday July 04, 2026 @05:21PM (#48789218)

Google definitely doesn't have free egress

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by thx67 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:08AM (#48791403)

Google owns the backbone. They definitely have free egress.

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by BetterThanSober on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:36AM (#48792685)

(1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivial matter, nor free

They're paying a marginal cost compared to us plebs, yeah, but definitely not "free", especially when YT is allegedly responsible for 1/6th of global internet traffic

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Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos by ismailmaj on Saturday July 04, 2026 @07:07PM (#48789891)

YouTube has been profitable for a while now by itself.

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