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  • Flip-flopping hasn’t been a real thing in politics since Trump came down the escalator. To make that model work the video host has to take on actual paying customers : advertisers. To see what that looks like and what it takes to actually be profitable serving and hosting videos for free with ads, just look at any free porn site. Intrusive ads everywhere, and an aggressive, never-ending arms race against ad blockers.











  • In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.