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Comment by stephengillie

> The system is so inefficient that it finances almost the complete operation of Alphabet/Google.

Since Youtube is wildly unprofitable, Alphabet/Google has to be funneling in money generated from other sources. Thus, Youtube is funded by ads, just mostly not from the ads on Youtube.

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