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		nerpderp82 on Jan 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stabl... YT is not subsidized by Google, it makes a profit. The scale of storage and serving is not of any real comparable scale.

rchaud on Jan 6, 2023 | [–]

Not for the first 15 years it didn't.

Nifty3929 on Jan 6, 2023 | [–]

I wonder how many orders of magnitude separate the amount of data stored in YouTube vs Wikipedia? 5? 6? How about data served by them?

Jensson on Jan 6, 2023 | [–]

About 8 for storage, wikipedia is gigabytes, youtube is around exabytes.

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