*Companies pay Alphabet a running premium for advertising spots on all of their platforms, and for user data. youtube gives 1/300th of that to creators who make the content that draws traffic.

then YouTube steals your browsing history, advertising data on PC and app. as well as recently spoken words while using Thier app.

then they charge 3x what they pay to creators to disable some of the ads on YouTube, while still doing all the rest.