• @Tja@programming.dev
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    -93 days 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.