I only hope they won’t touch youtube Premium, it’s the only thing that makes youtube barely tolerable.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’d be surprised. It’s extremely expensive to store, process, and stream that much video data. Google also doesn’t, as I understand, sell data to third-parties; they use it to target ads for their own ad network, and while I’m sure viewing habits contribute a lot towards making that targeting more valuable, they’re still dealing with extremely high operating costs, and those have to be at least somewhat balanced with actual direct revenue.