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I'm forced to conclude that it's actually making money, else they would have killed it by now.

I have it - signed up the day it was available at my house. One of the few Google things I'm pretty sure will continue to exist.

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Google is perfectly willing to shut down a profitable product

Any examples you'd care to point out? All the high-profile Google shutdowns I can think of either failed in the marketplace (Stadia, Plus) or were successful but not making money (Reader, Hangouts).

Their DNS service comes to mind- although I guess it was divested, not killed.

I have also had Google Fiber since near its inception. I imagine it is profitable for Google because instead of tracking my browsing data, Google can just track all my packets now.

They did kill it before. But it's back again.

GOOGLE: There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.

And when they’re all dead, there’s only one thing you can do: Run their pockets and look for loose change.

Fiber was not killed in the cities where it had already launched. What's new is that they're expanding again.

I think it must be that it will have the net effect of making people less free. They throw out stuff that could make money when it's good for freedom like Google Reader.

I've been told why Reader was shut down and it was the opposite of this.

(I can't repeat it because I forgot most of it.)

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