YouTube is a money machine for Google. While actual numbers are hard to come by, it's estimated that the online video hub brings in upwards of $15 billion annually.With that much money at stake, it's not surprising that its business model continues to put profits over people. In 2015, following the on-air murder of a television reporter and her cameraman, gruesome videos of the event were quickly posted on YouTube with with ads alongside. I wrote a post about it at the time: