The idea that many people have old drives is already assuming a lot.

No. Google will not deliver at all a lot of email. It doesn’t even make it to your spam folder.

No. I definitely prefer email with good spam blocking. I’m not criticizing Google for blocking mail how they do. It’s pretty necessary. Which is also something you learn fairly quickly if you try to self host.

Some of the time it is though. Like Gmail has a pretty large list of IPs it won’t deliver email from. When self-hosting, it’s something you really do have to worry about.

The reason most people don’t worry about it is that most people only use a handful of free emails and organizations that provide email addresses for their users spend time worrying about it so users don’t have to.

Only if you tried searching first and didn’t find anything. If it’s on the first page of Google if you just try searching the claim, then other people shouldn’t need to link it for you.

To keep the same probabilities, you can only reduce and only to one that is a factor. E.g. d20 can be equivalent to d10, d5, d4 and d2.

Multiplying the rolls messes things up. As an example, for d12 as a d6xd2 you have double the chance to roll 2, 4, and 6 and no chance to roll 7, 9, and 11.

You could make the equation a little more complicated (6×(d2-1))+d6 to make it work.

But if you roll the d00 on accident, you can easily still treat it as a d10. If you roll the d8/4, you can’t.

So did you just make up a number? I did try some searching before I spat out mine. It wasn’t extensive research and figured anyone doing any cursory check would come away with the same answer. Which is why I didn’t bother linking anything. I couldn’t find anything that said as low as $0.50/1000 and have never heard a creator saying that low. Hence me asking where you got your number.

https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-much-does-youtube-pay-per-view/

https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-do-youtubers-make/#:~:text=On average%2C a YouTuber earns,%2418 for every 1%2C000 views.

https://medium.com/swlh/how-much-does-youtube-pay-516ea8cd338d

Do you have a source for that? What are you basing it on?

$10-$30/1,000 views doesn’t sound like much. Except the people who make a career out of YouTube are regularly producing 100k+ view videos. It adds up. It’s one of the things you can pick and choose to leave out of a competitor. But it is a major reason why people put videos on YouTube.

Not sure. But it is one of the cornerstones of YouTube. Also tiktok does pay creators.

Yes, things get easier when you take paying creators out of the mix.

All we need is for a good alternative to become more viable

This is where the biggest challenge lies. Doing what YouTube does is not easy. I don’t think anyone could do it all. So it would have to be picking a choosing. Can anyone upload hours/days/years worth of video content? Are the people who put up those videos able to get paid without having to create their own relationships with advertisers or asking for viewer donations? How are copyright violations handled? Or more sinister video content?

The dayquil thing totally threw me for a loop once, too. It was before self check out, and I thought the cashier was asking for my club card and said no thanks. It took a second for her to explain.

If you aren’t getting paid for your content, they’d probably be glad to not have to host it anymore. Anyone with content where it’s worth them hosting it is getting paid.

We have no idea if YouTube operates at a loss or is profitable. Google won’t say. Revenue really tells you very little when you look at what it takes to run something like YouTube. It’s a huge reason why an open competitor is so hard to make work.

You vet them once they ask you for an interview/phone screen. Vetting takes a lot more time than applying. So apply, then if it matters, check them out.

They’re looking at the code returned by the server with a chrome user-agent and it’s the same.

That leads to downvote trolls.

What if it was an hour or more? Do you see how that might be unreasonable?