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I assumed video because the comparison is youtube. AA isnt really what was in mind because they are more of a book archiving site with slow capped direct downloads than video torrents but its along the lines of my point that their cost is far lower than YouTube so you'd expect them to run less ads.
Most of the pirated content is being served is via torrents which allow serving content cheaper than YouTube because the cost is distributed across the users in the network. This content is being encoded into efficient formats same as YouTube. There just isnt sites that cost more to operate than YouTube. except Vimeo i guess. Stuff lile 123 movies, no one would ever even try claim that has less ads than YouTube and it servers a shitter more compressed less reliable video stream.