Edit: To clarify:

Is it even possible, financially speaking, to keep adding storage? I mean, advertisements don’t even make a lot of money, is the indefinite growth of server storage even sustainable?

Or will they do what Twitch does with old content and just delete them?

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    1 year ago

    They still keep the originals. They’re degrading the quality of older videos for bandwidth reasons, not storage.

    Also, it’s not because of the price of bandwidth: It’s because they can use up so much bandwidth in a given region that they can cause slowdowns (e.g. hogging too much of what’s available).