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

• thx67 2mo ago
  And free bandwdith. Free bandwidth is nice.
  • BetterThanSober 2mo ago
    Google definitely doesn't have free egress
    • thx67 2mo ago
      Google owns the backbone. They definitely have free egress.
      • BetterThanSober 2mo ago
        (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
• deleted 2mo ago
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