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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (9 children)

That's the whole company. How much did YouTube lose for them?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (8 children)

YouTube lost google -31.5 billion in 2023, approximately 10% of all of alphabet's revenue.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was genuinely confused by this statistic until I realised it was a double negative. YouTube losen't Google a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Yeah, sorry, sometimes I can't help my need to play with language, when given the slightest chance.

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