If you don't like that, you can build your own server and steam from that.
Forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for their hosting costs.
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.
They should take responsibility for being the Internets video archive because they've faught so hard to become it and pushed everyone else out the market.
How much money has google made on selling my data? What do I get in return? More ads. If I pay google to remove the ads, they still sell my data and they take my money directly. By playing the game at all, you can only lose. So to the extent that is possible, I don't play. I also feel exactly zero remorse for taking advantage of a company like google. Their practices are deeply unethical and harmful, being a monopoly is inherently bad, and stealing from them is an ethical net positive.
Don't be reductive, it makes you look uninformed. This is a much more complex issue than simply paying for bandwidth.