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  • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    2 years ago

    Who pays for the severs and billions of gigabytes of storage required to hold all those videos?

      • Tempotown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 years ago

        How much data left is there to sell about me? Pretty sure they know pretty much everything about us already.

        My surfing habits change a little, but it’s mostly cyclical.

        • dtc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          They don’t need new data to sell, they just find a new client who doesn’t have your info yet.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      The point is that that’s in their own interest, because if they wouldn’t host it, they wouldn’t make any money.

    • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      Source on it being billions? All I could find was that they get 76PB/yr, which doesn’t add up to multiple EBs.