why google allows to host videos (YouTube) and photos (google photos) unlimited for free to anyone? How they make money on this?
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What is business is Facebook in?
You might be surprised to learn Facebook is in the business of collecting data on its users and selling that to advertisers.
That’s how companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Youtube make money.
Why does Facebook provide a log in API that other websites can use? To collect you user information from those websites as well.
They build a profile for each of it’s users based on what they post, what they like, and what they watch and then use that information to sell advertising space to advertisers.
The problem is you are so used to the ads that you ignore them. But start paying attention and look at the sites and you’d be surprised who many ads pop up. Aside from ads that intterupt Youtube videos, social media ads are designed to be unintrusive and subconcious.
I still get a ton, and I even use an ad blocker.
It’s a numbers game. They sell SO MANY ad spots that it allows them some leeway. Videos are also compressed to reduce space and stored and backed up differently. They also delete inactive content or crack down on people proving all their videos.
The ads you see is how they make money. That’s how all their sites work. The search engine is free too but they make revenue from their ads.
Your information is the product their selling. You’re providing the data for free. They spend a bunch of money to glean information from this data. Then they sell that information.
Photos have location information on them. Photos have information in them. The people you share them with is information.
Remember, they only promised to keep the information safe from other people. They get to look at it all they want.
For YouTube, it’s the ads.
For Google photos, there is a limit on space. You have to pay when you get past the free storage.
There is a saying, I forget who it is attributed to: “If its free, *you* are the product of value.” Google/facebook/GenericSocialMedia sells the privilege of catching your attention to advertisers. Because your content provides insight into who you are and what your consumer profile may be, they consider it more targeted and thus likely to be more effective. While you may not notice advertising directly on those sites, the presence of cookies associated with your social media accounts can follow you around the Internet.
Google is steering you to search results that are biased toward left leaning poitical spin.
Alright. Let’s say I use addblock and never see any ads from google. Also none my videos and photos have never been deleted for 15 years. Can we say about virality of google itself? Like when I ask myself this question, then ask you and that’s how google became more popular and gets more money
Data storage has gotten incredibly cheap.
You are the product. That’s why you see ads that relate so much to your interests.
A great video benefits YouTube more than the creator. Creators have been selling merchandise to subsidize the now meager YouTube royalties.
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