[poincaredisk]

>YouTube has been making a few billion dollars a year in profit for a while now.

Are you insider, or have access to leaks I'm not aware of? YouTube profits are not public information (they are not broken down in the public fillings) so how can you say that confidently?

[SR2Z]

I'm not going to dox myself, but it is pretty clear that unless YT is extremely inefficient (by Google standards), it's making money:

https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation

Think about it another way: Google would be only too happy to kill the site if it wasn't making money.