Kinda, platforms like YouTube's lifeblood are the huge amount of eye balls aka "views" so they can sell ads to companies hopeful those eye balls watch and click

Kinda, platforms like YouTube's lifeblood are the huge amount of eye balls aka "views" so they can sell ads to companies hopeful those eye balls watch and click their ad. Of course I'm "a free loader" but there is still some residual "value" in me. Either way I don't care about Google, if they "win" I also would win by not wasting my time watching videos.