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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And as we know companies prefer to provide a service with a loss, for decades. Name a company that can make -31.5 billion and keep going. Or maybe the data went to google, where they made the money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not made -31.5 billion. Lost -31.5 billion. As in they brought in that much, not cost it.

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