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US watchdog just gave up trying to get Google to explain YouTube's huge financial figures

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Underlying mode of operationi

There's no practical distinction between google and youtube. Both track you in order to learn more about you in order to target you with advertising. They populate and make use of a shared database about their consumers. One serves up search results and the other serves up videos, but that's a minor distinction.

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