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by akie 394 days ago
Do they, though? Are competitors actually downloading all these videos? Supposedly there are 5 billion videos on YouTube (https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-videos-are-on-youtube), downloading all of that is a LOOOOT of data and time.

I mean, you could limit yourself to the most popular or most interesting 100 million, but that's still an enormous amount of data to download.
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mrklol 394 days ago
Just wanted to mention the latter, you don’t need all videos. It’s indeed a lot of data but doable so I am not sure if I would count this as big advantage.
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qudat 394 days ago
You are incredibly naive if you don’t see full, unrestricted access to YT as an advantage.
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