[marcosdumay]

It's not inherently a money pit.

Google and Facebook have a complete oligopoly over the ads market and are manipulating it so nobody else can prosper.

[hot_gril]

It seems like inherently a money pit to me. Was Google even profiting off it before they started cramming in ads and offering YT Premium?

[malfist]

Serving video data to, potentially, billions of users is absolutely expensive.

You can't, "in a weekend" a youtube clone that can stand up to the first viral hit.

[skeledrew]

That's what BitTorrent is for. The main issue with torrenting is that non-viral content is going to have very low availability.