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Youtube survives on google's massive repertoire of products being vastly more profitable, not because it's the best of its kind.

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And free bandwdith. Free bandwidth is nice.

Google definitely doesn't have free egress

Google owns the backbone. They definitely have free egress.

(1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivial matter, nor free

They're paying a marginal cost compared to us plebs, yeah, but definitely not "free", especially when YT is allegedly responsible for 1/6th of global internet traffic

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