I feel your comment only supports the points in the article. I would say that YouTube, GMail, and Google Maps are all direct funnels into the Adsense machine.

I feel your comment only supports the points in the article. I would say that YouTube, GMail, and Google Maps are all direct funnels into the Adsense machine. Android, Chrome, and Chromebooks see success only as instruments to have infrastructure to more efficiently push users to use the Google products to direct data into the Adsense machine. Any Google product that does not sufficiently funnel user data into the Adsense machine is canned. GCP exists as a covinient way to make some side money on their existing infrastructure. I think only Waymo is the true outlier in this case, but I think that lives as it's own thing, given that's under Alphabet instead of Google proper.