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The YouTube thing is false as of a few years ago. If you have noticed, they've crammed it full of ads.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-r...

I think it's projected to earn 20 billion this year.

Thanks for this. I've heard recently that, in its current form, digital advertising is extremely overpriced and propped up by misleading metrics [1] and might take a downturn in the future, but I also don't really know much about it and and that point it's just speculation.

[1] https://hbr.org/2021/02/what-digital-advertising-gets-wrong

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