[29athrowaway]

It's full of residential trash burning videos.

They film themselves burning residential trash and teach others "how to save money at the dump" doing it.

Each one of them pollutes more than an entire city.

I've reported them, because those activities are illegal, and YouTube keeps the videos up.

[isykt]

The comment I'm responding to asked if either the customer or the company were better after the merger.

Google's (and YouTube's) customers are advertisers. Advertisers are certainly better off with the scale and reach that Google juiced YouTube with, and Google earns about $15B annually in revenue from it.

So, I'd say both conditions are met.

[tempestn]

Sounds like the algorithm has learned that you get really fired up about residential trash videos.