"We"? Who's "we"? There is no "we".
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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Well yes, that's how they don't go out of business. In theory.
So you're saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.
I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.
You forgot the part where they pay the video creator 50% of the money and use the other 50% to run one of the most computationally expensive and complex services on the internet.
I don't know about computationaly expensive. Once video is processed, it's mostly just a fancy CDN.
Wouldn't serving video and bandwidth concerns count as complexity?
I was sort of lumping storage and compute costs together as "compute" but compute itself is probably astronomical too.
Even if it was just a CDN, a cdn at that scale streaming that much content simultaneously would require a huge amount of compute just to handle the streaming request traffic.
There's also the recommendation algorithm which is powered by ai and takes a shit ton of parameters, at that scale that would be a massive computational task in and of itself.
Even video processing they probably send it through a couple Ai pipelines to add subtitles, make sure it's not porn, check if your discussing topics with high misinformation so it can put that Wikipedia link below the video, etc.
All that plus probably another million other little problems that comes with running a service at that scale.
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Yes that's how a company makes money...continue, you can do this!
Yeah. That's how it works. They get money either from serving you ads or exempting you from the ad service. Either way they get money.
Advertising is a racket. Always has been.
"I"m playing both sides so that I come out on top?"
Still better than old school linear tv, where you paid to watch things being constantly interrupted by paid commercials.
Moonoopooly babey
I mean...yeah. Ads subsidize viewers that can't/won't pay. That's the whole system. Did you expect something else?
I'm astounded at how much is available on the internet at no/little cost. Think how valuable our data must be for them to continue providing it.