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Author: Andrew Laack <andrew@laack.co>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:03:38 -0500
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diff --git a/posts/entries/the-sustainability-of-youtube.md b/posts/entries/the-sustainability-of-youtube.md
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I dislike using cloud services because they may discontinue my service [1] or they may do something stupid [2] that negatively impacts me. These concerns, along with concerns about privacy [3], have led me to keep information and content I care about away from cloud services. This does make me wonder, how many people would be distraught about the loss of their content if YouTube terminated their accounts? This is not the topic today, nor is it something I can easily answer, but it is something I wonder about and would like others to consider.
-Similarly, I am skeptical of 'free' services. It's incorrect to say "if something is free, you are the product" because charity does exist, but when it comes to Google, they aren't a charity. Their current model with YouTube is to have people upload videos to their site and show ads to some users when they watch said videos. There are also paid subscriptions, but their primary monetization comes from ads. An important point is they don't purge content on a regular basis, except in cases of ToS violations. As such, there is a (nearly) monotonically increasing function that describes the storage requirements of YouTube. This motivates my question below.
+Similarly, I am skeptical of "free" services. It's incorrect to say "if something is free, you are the product" because charity does exist, but when it comes to Google, they aren't a charity. Their current model with YouTube is to have people upload videos to their site and show ads to some users when they watch said videos. There are also paid subscriptions, but their primary monetization comes from ads. An important point is they don't purge content on a regular basis, except in cases of ToS violations. As such, there is a (nearly) monotonically increasing function that describes the storage requirements of YouTube. This motivates my question below.
## Question
diff --git a/posts/site/the-sustainability-of-youtube.html b/posts/site/the-sustainability-of-youtube.html
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ This does make me wonder, how many people would be distraught about the
loss of their content if YouTube terminated their accounts? This is not
the topic today, nor is it something I can easily answer, but it is
something I wonder about and would like others to consider.</p>
-<p>Similarly, I am skeptical of ‘free’ services. It’s incorrect to say
+<p>Similarly, I am skeptical of “free” services. It’s incorrect to say
“if something is free, you are the product” because charity does exist,
but when it comes to Google, they aren’t a charity. Their current model
with YouTube is to have people upload videos to their site and show ads
