when youtube first launched in 2005 there was no ads, so why all the ads now

on youtube, many videos are unwatchable now due to all the stupid ads, it ruins the watching experience...but back in 2005 and the few years following, there was no ads on youtube...so why now?

is it becase big corporations hijacked the site and turned it into a commercial tv station, and took the real purpose out of youtube? youtube was originally meant for ordinary people to upload videos, not celebrities or media companies, they have ruined youtube in my opinion.

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BlueGreenGrey · M

Can you really not imagine how much it costs to operate a site like YouTube? How do you imagine a site could keep providing this completely for free, particularly a site whose only purpose is to show videos, which have much, much higher resource requirements than a site that only displays text content?

Moreover, think of how much traffic YouTube gets. It's one of the most popular sites on the Internet. That is a HUGE strain on servers. By contrast SW doesn't even get a fraction of such traffic, and SW has ads too.

Twitter was not as heavily focused on hosting video content and yet just one of its data centers in Sacramento was costing it USD 100 million per year.

I honestly don't know what you were thinking, if you really believed that YouTube could just magically show you videos for free, forever, regardless of whether a Big Bad Corporate entity like Google bought YouTube or not. How did you think even a still-independent YouTube would fund all that it takes to show you those videos????????????????

SW-User

@BlueGreenGrey I don’t think you put enough question marks on the end

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@BlueGreenGrey Exactly!