Ads pay for everything online? How else do you pay for everything unless you pay them directly??
My day to day "job" is something for the public good and I do it without getting paid for it. But it still has to make money to survive even with that.
When we’re talking about consistently serving video at the scale they are, those costs won’t be minute.
Obviously they’re looking to turn a profit (if not profiting already), but I don’t think the situation changes dramatically either way.
What else do you want?
You want it to be free for you where you don't have to pay anything to use it? Seems like you don't have a realistic view of what it costs to run / build / maintain this.
I love "the confidence" as I think that is what makes a great entrepreneur who says something like "Oh that is easy, I can do that", cut to 10 years later and a lot of pain, and maybe they have...