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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by jkestner on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:02PM (#26997032)
If it has a screen and network access, the demand for growth will inevitably lead it to become an ad platform. Or more generally, a market for eyeballs.
Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by cosmie on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:44PM (#26998335)
Or at the very least it'll become a data collection platform, to be packaged and sold (whether for use with ads directly or for the many consumer intelligence[1] companies that charge gobs of money for aggregate reporting).

[1] https://www.numerator.com/