This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
Yeah I mean obviously? YouTube pays to serve video. pirating sites serve no video and dont produce any content no dev team because its a copy paste open source implementation.
Nominally? For sure. What about per user? Maybe, or maybe Youtube uses more resources than it should.
Also we are comparing different kind of platforms. Youtube is video sharing platform. Any “creative individual” can post there 24/7 any nonsense. Piracy sites are about licensed paid content, so comparison should be against say Netflix.
Youtube’s competitor is PeerTube which has 0 ads whatsoever
I agree but im not drawing the comparison. The meme is drawing that comparison I am just saying why I dont think its so ridiculous for youtube to run more ads than a piracy site.
Yeah, but surely they have much more limited ad revenue than YouTube, given that a lot of the ads I see on those sites are ones that pay out less (like the shitty porn ads). Personally, I suspect it’s actually competition between piracy sites that has lowered the overall ads, because you have more choices than just one in comparison to YouTube, where you can use it or leave it.
Most piracy sites don’t host anything besides a simple frontend, they just embed videos from a variety of other websites nobody would deign use directly, because those sure as hell do have worse ads than youtube.
Yeah I mean obviously? YouTube pays to serve video. pirating sites serve no video and dont produce any content no dev team because its a copy paste open source implementation.
Uh, you gotta pay hosting somehow, so most piracy sites rely on ad revenue to exist. It’s less overhead, but it ain’t completely free.
No shit. It costs less to run than youtube which is why they run less ads
Nominally? For sure. What about per user? Maybe, or maybe Youtube uses more resources than it should.
Also we are comparing different kind of platforms. Youtube is video sharing platform. Any “creative individual” can post there 24/7 any nonsense. Piracy sites are about licensed paid content, so comparison should be against say Netflix.
Youtube’s competitor is PeerTube which has 0 ads whatsoever
I agree but im not drawing the comparison. The meme is drawing that comparison I am just saying why I dont think its so ridiculous for youtube to run more ads than a piracy site.
Yeah, but surely they have much more limited ad revenue than YouTube, given that a lot of the ads I see on those sites are ones that pay out less (like the shitty porn ads). Personally, I suspect it’s actually competition between piracy sites that has lowered the overall ads, because you have more choices than just one in comparison to YouTube, where you can use it or leave it.
I suspect they just make more than enough by donations and promoting their seedbox or IPTV services than they get by using google ads.
Most piracy sites don’t host anything besides a simple frontend, they just embed videos from a variety of other websites nobody would deign use directly, because those sure as hell do have worse ads than youtube.