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Revenue != profits


I'm sorry, in two years they upped their revenue by over 10b - from 19 to 28b - I'm fairly certain they are having record profits. (Google doesn't release numbers for youtube's revenue, so that's the best number you're getting)


You don't spend the kind of money staffing a product like YouTube unless there are lots of profits too.

Everyone seems to have read an article from 10+ years ago and haven't updated their opinion since. The internet is wildly different now. Tech makes huge profits.


Absolutely! I find it nuts to see so many people defending giant corporations - it's so backwards.


Please don’t ask for sources on publicly available information, as if it’s my responsibility to personally convince you of it.


It's not public. We only know revenues. So you should back up your claims with sources.




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