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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by MichaelZuo on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:03PM (#34777481)
Google has competitors in the search space so it's understandable why they're afraid of calling bluffs.

And from what I understand Youtube isn't profitable by itself.

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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by Retric on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:08PM (#34778560)
Why do you think it’s unprofitable? Last estimate I looked at showed YouTube as being wildly profitable.
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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by MichaelZuo on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:15PM (#34782384)
Can you link to the estimate?
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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by Retric on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:59PM (#34782853)
YouTube revenue got a huge bump in 2021 which is when that wildly profitable estimate was given.

I don’t have specific estimates I can link to, but I’ve seen statements like this fairly regularly: There are more questions around YouTube’s profitability, but he said the general view was that it was “modestly profitable but not dramatically so.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/technology/youtube-financ...

Of course when Google actually disclosed what percentage of their revenue came from YouTube it was well below the 20% suggested in that piece.

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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by MichaelZuo on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:50PM (#34784056)
> YouTube revenue got a huge bump in 2021 which is when that wildly profitable estimate was given. I don’t have specific estimates I can link to...

What is 'that wildly profitable estimate' then?

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