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The moment the cost went from free to more-than-free is “when that happened.” I’m not willing to participate.

• mitxela 4d ago
  You expect Google to serve thousands of petabytes per month (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in raw bandwidth) for absolutely nothing in return?
  • xp84 4d ago
    Do you think it's that low? I would have assumed 7 figures in bandwidth.
  • calmworm 4d ago
    I have zero expectations of any business. If they have an expectation to be paid then they need to offer something of value. Their costs to operate are not my concern.
    • mitxela 4d ago
      If they're not offering something of value why are you using the thing that you say doesn't have value?
      • calmworm 4d ago
        I don’t. Please see original comment.
        • mitxela 4d ago
          Well this discussion about getting YouTube premium is clearly aimed at people who use YouTube but without premium, not people who don't use YouTube at all.
          • calmworm 3d ago
            Follow the thread all the way up for the full context.
• xp84 4d ago
  > I’m not willing to participate Nah, you're participating by watching. You'd have 100% of my respect and 100% moral high ground with your stance just by avoiding youtube.com.
  • calmworm 4d ago
    Your assumption I’m watching is invalid.