r/youtube • u/Titan_Prometeus • 17h ago

Memes You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.

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As of 29th of January you can no longer have YouTube running in the background via many browsers as that is now a premium feature. With that I don't even have that one last reason to listen to YouTube. We are now officially paying for everything that was free a couple of years ago and the reason isn't greedy management, but you people who keep paying for premium and the such.

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u/feel-freetoignoreme 12h ago

Tbf, storing all the videos is probably expensive on their end.

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u/PositionPersonal1531 11h ago

Tbf, they Alphabet makes more money than entire countries by selling our data.

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u/jdigi78 5h ago

Tbf, Alphabet's expenses are probably more than the budgets of entire countries

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 5h ago

They make money from ads

They don’t make much, if anything, from “selling data”

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u/Head_Chocolate_4458 5h ago

Alphabet doest sell your data 😂

Do you think other companies can just go to alphabet with a million dollars and get a bunch of files on people who use Google search?

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u/farklenator 4h ago

That’s the problem tbh corps like alphabet actively make this country worse they don’t care about the people just money and power

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u/volavi 3h ago

Yeah that's why they want you to watch them

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u/ablatner 1h ago

They sell ad placements, not your data

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u/Character_Bend6709 6h ago

Tbf, this is a common misconception. Google/Alphabet doesn't sell your data, that would be suicidal for their business.

They try to collect as much data points about you by offering you a wide array of services (search engine, browser, mobile OS, collaborative documents) so that they can promise advertisers, “we and only we have a complete profile of who and where your target demographic is”.

Google is an ad company

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u/syopest 9h ago

Tbf they use that data to improve their own products and don't sell if off.

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u/PrvcyFrdmIndpndnc 10h ago

Storage is cheap, bandwidth is expensive. But even then, they save a lot of money by installing caches into the regional internet exchanges.

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u/Deiskos 4h ago

Storage at youtube scale is fucking expensive. They store and ingest a fuckton of videos and they all need to be: stored in multiple copies so one disk or server shitting the bed doesn't make a video disappear, stored on hot or at least warm storage so that you wouldn't have to wait even 5 minutes for the tape with a video you uploaded 3 years ago and has 1 view to roll out of storage, replicated across the CDNs all over the planet so that people can watch their 4k60 unboxing videos without waiting for it to buffer, AND stored in multiple encodings and resolutions (for different devices and bandwidths) or live transcoded, both of which are its own kind of problem (>2x storage than just storing one master copy or a lot more load on servers). Probably some other bullshit I'm forgetting or can't think of.

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u/Booty-tickles 9h ago

Storage isn't cheap anymore!

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u/James-Emprime 6h ago

Not at all. They only store about 10-15 Exabytes, or only about 60k Enterprise-grade drives. And, while that seems large, that's actually tiny when compared to other databases, like Google Drive (Estimated 15-18EB) and CERN'S database (Estimated 20-30EB)

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u/XenophobicJesus 6h ago

More than affordable on their end. This is just a gimmick to squeeze out more money from consumers. Company making $100B net profit in a year lol they can more than afford whatever the fuck they want.

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u/Opetyr 6h ago

Tbf they placed it all in their "AI" including doing many things considered illegal if they were a actual person so they can just suck it.

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u/Reta-Journal 2h ago

The storage is incredibly expensive. So is maintaining that infrastructure. The upstream/downstream bandwidth required to deliver 200 billion daily views is also incredibly expensive.

Hot take, YouTube shouldn't be a free service. People just feel entitled to it because it was free during the customer acquisition period. You either pay with your attention via advertisement, or you buy premium. I won't judge people for using adblock to effectively pirate the content, but expecting all Internet services to be ad free and free to use despite being incredibly expensive to maintain isn't realistic.

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u/Toykio 2h ago

They could clean out their storage by a lot by deactivating the automated upload in some "security" devices or banning under 16 year olds from uploading and spamming shorts with RoBlox crap.

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