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[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

Well, then don't go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

  • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
  • disk space to store it
  • bandwidth to send it around the world
  • compute to transcode it and process it
  • real estate and security for the premises
  • power for the datacenter
  • ac to cool the servers
  • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
  • wages of devs for the app
  • yes, profits for the company

Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don't act like you are morally entitled to do it.

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