C'mon, Google is an ad platform. Everything Google does that isn't selling ads is a rounding error next to the ads. At least newspapers and magazines have subs

C'mon, Google is an ad platform. Everything Google does that isn't selling ads is a rounding error next to the ads. At least newspapers and magazines have subscribers that pay directly for the content. In fact, since Google and Facebook have eaten their advertising lunch, legacy publishers are more dependent on subscription revenue: https://medium.com/the-graph/advertising-vs-subscription-a4200642842e https://medium.com/the-graph/advertising-vs-subscription-a42...