As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video - eviltoast
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    8 months ago

    There’s also the cost to transcode the video and audio streams into different formats so they don’t have to do it on demand whenever someone watches a video. That’s a lot of compute cost plus they have to store all of those additional transcodes which is more storage cost.