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		yuhong on Sept 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compl... It was mentioned in a private email that the only reason YouTube exists is that Google's servers happens to have a lot of free disk space in the days before SSDs.

cortesoft on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

Is the limiting factor for youtube really disk space? I would imagine it is bandwidth.

lbearl on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

YouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

yuhong on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

Yep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.

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