Louis Rossmann just posted a video on how YouTube’s war against ads is backfiring and I wanted to just ask the question because YT burned money for the vast majority of its existence, but I’m just wondering why is video hosting so expensive in the first place, is it because you need mods to make sure people don’t post CP, legal purposes, videos take too much data, what exactly?
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You can actually see how many different AV streams exist for a particular video with ytp-dl. Somebody posted a video above and I popped it in just to illustrate, and there's about 10 audio files, and 30 video files (YT's player combines them on playback, presumably). I don't know if the IDs it reports represents a standard list, but if it does, it means Youtube supports at least 600 different preset combinations of formats and settings. It's hard to imagine, but YT is actually a pretty impressive machine, underneath the garbage front-end and the megalomaniacal social engineering.