"Fool your users while you smother the competition with good tech" is an important part to Google's success: as PaulG mentions, Google is a good example because everyone knows about them.
People partially flocked to them (me included) because of their public stance on ads, and then they played me.
Without claiming things they did the opposite from, one can't help but wonder if they would have ever succeeded? And would that have made them a story to tell at all?
> YouTube has reached a few other milestones in recent months, including the 100 million users who pay for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.
Purchase price parity based pricing of YouTube premium according to the country is awesome, in comparision to other services like Spotify, X. Thats one main reason for engaged buyout.