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> serving online videos is not too advanced a technology unless I'm missing something

Google leverages their huge datacenters. They're a monopoly precisely because of that.

Then I wonder why Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etc. who have huge datacenters have not made their own version of YT?

They all have video CDNs. They either don't have an advertising business or they do have an advertising business centered around their version of social media which is different from YouTube's.

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