Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.
This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.
This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.
Year over year I’m pretty sure the cost has only gone down.
TBF 4k and higher resolutions are more common but it’s generally not nearly as expensive as it once was.
The cost for 1TB has gone down, the total cost is going up because of the crazy amounts of uploaded content. Youtube is getting more and more expensive.
Storage cost has gone down. Bandwidth costs are way up.