By your reasoning, every single platform should be in the same shitty state of yt. Google is not as annoying, and most users don't need access to those google services that are paywalled (at least in my country). as far as i've seen, only yt and sometimes twitch put ads that you must watch in order to access their services. At least they hope we must watch them, i guess. Your argument was wonderful big numbers, but you got me with more questions than before
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wait actually didn't know this. Can you expand on that? tbh i'm quite ignorant in technology
pretty sure yt has little competition, at least around western audiences (not sure how the situation is outside here), and i doubt hosting a website is actually expensive. If anything, a lot of banks are getting worried on the lack of real money they have. Thats apparently needed to revive us industry because us government doesnt want its facilities in china anymore (doensn't make sense though, the government has no problem creating money out of thin air, to save big banks). For that reason the entertainment sector is starting to monetize everything possible, squeezing out of people that on average, don't actally have all that much money.
At least that my understanding of it
how do you know their mafias don't stretch everywhere? i bet the delivery guys are secret agents on behalf of the gov (mafia <3 government).
i guess you are contractually obliged to get italian citizenship to do a pizza delivery