[mid-kid]

Youtube survives on google's massive repertoire of products being vastly more profitable, not because it's the best of its kind.

[thx67]

And free bandwdith. Free bandwidth is nice.

[BetterThanSober]

Google definitely doesn't have free egress

[thx67]

Google owns the backbone. They definitely have free egress.

[BetterThanSober]

(1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivial matter, nor free

They're paying a marginal cost compared to us plebs, yeah, but definitely not "free", especially when YT is allegedly responsible for 1/6th of global internet traffic