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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol, so Google foots the hosting bill either on YT or GDrive? That is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, though I suspect that given the size of the raw videos, the creators I sub to probably all pay for additional gDrive space. 15GB is the free limit afaik, and some of the videos are 5GB+ each, and there are tens of videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Consider using yt-dlp. You can download any video from youtube in any quality available.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I back them on Patreon because I want to support them monetarily, not because I want higher video quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My apologies, I misread your previous comment. Please disregard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With a Business account, GDrive is $20/month per 5TB... which they just recently updated from $20/month per 1000TB (it used to be $15/month per unlimited TB, then people abused it to store over 2000TB and stuff like that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like they know most people will never use very much, so they are counting on the lightweight users to subsidize the heavy users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I blame LTT for giving people ideas: https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

He got a few million views on the video, everyone got capped.