"Just announced by YouTube, the website will be limiting the amount of Subscriptions a non-premium user can have, as well as limiting the amount of likes and comments a user without YouTube Premium can use per day. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has described the decision as "a measure to prevent voting and comment manipulation" and said that "most YouTube users will not be affected by the change."
"YouTube content creators such as however, are furious. Creators like Markiplier are calling the move "disgusting and money-hungry, with no consideration for the users that make YouTube all of its content."
"No statement has been made yet on how limiting the amount of comments and likes free users can use will affect the algorithm for these creators"
Death to Google
Yeah, YouTube is one of the few companies I give a little bit of a pass to. There's simply no way for them to keep storing the amount of content they do for mostly free. The fact that it was ever free and allowed ad blockers was just a miracle of low interest rates flooding tech with unlimited money.
YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. If we assume 10mbps CBR bitrate on those videos (gross oversimplification I know) then you're looking at 2.2TB every minute. I just built a 40TB NAS for $1500ish and they'd fill that in 20 minutes.
Obviously they're getting volume discounts and using better compression algorithms to save space, but the storage cost alone is insane.
Sorry, I realize I'm preaching to the choir by responding to you with this.
Be a lot better if YouTube was just honest though. Spare us this "reduce spam" bull shit and just be honest that video is expensive.
I realized I fell for bait now but I did math so I'm leaving it