Google owns youtube. Believe it or not the video casting is costing money. Yup, reality is sometimes not virtual. For quite a while google was spending about the same amount on the actual casting as they were taking in in ad revenue. In other words they were not making any money but the cash flow was huge. No surprise that they would put some powerful computer advertising modeling software to work and come up with some new ideas that may actually put a big part of that cash flow in their pocket. I don't know what their modeling software came up with but they are trying it. In addition the slang for the government agencies like The CiA,DIA,NRO,NASA,TSA ad nauseum, are all known as ALPHABET agencies. Do you need a bigger slap in the face than google renaming their company Alphabet? They could pretend to give anonymity and privacy lip service before they bought Doubleclick a long time ago. After that the combination of the 2 databases allowed for the unmasking of all alphabet subscribers if they wanted to. 80% of all intelligence work is not the data but mapping the interrelations of the parties that contact one another. Just watch some videos, while there still on about how Bill Binney describes his creation and the proper operation of his data collection and intelligence analysis tool Thinthread. When he came to the realization that the NSA was violating their charter and Illegally as far as he knew collecting domestic data he resigned in October 2001 after going through internal channels with his inquires. The problem was that the spying was as far as the very small group in the know Legal but the legal fantasy was described in a bunch of questionable bit of legal doublespeak to a very select few individuals and made absolutely top secret so not only was he unable to look at the pretzel logic behind the decision he was unable to come up with any information that any attempt at a legal basis for operating this way. They were using a butchered version of the software he produced and he was head of the technical section for the entire world so he was very certain of what was happening. So he was left with no other alternative than to resign. He did so in October of 2001. Later he was arrested by an FBI goon squad while in the shower. The took him out back of his house and asked him if he was aware of any criminal activity at his place of employment. He told the uncleared persons of the only criminal activity that he was aware of which was the wholesale violation of the charter of the NSA. That created a huge problem but also helped bring to light the extent of the problem and the final straw was when the Director of the CIA James Clapper lied to Congress about surveillance of the domestic population and bulk data collection that drove Edward Snowden to alert the American people to the invisibility of the emperor's latest haberdashery. He was basically the valet so had a boots on the ground view up the skirt of the lofty powers that were. He believed that the violations was so agrredious that the man on the street must be informed. See the link to the article then watch the video in HD if possible, the slides are a bit easier to see. https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/

Snowden got a bit of his tail in the trap but manged to grab a handful of whiskers before the cat swallowed him and avoided a tiny jail cell. He has a large one the size of Russia. Mean while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning has been released from confinement after her sentence was commuted from 35 to 7 years. There is no question about the legality of the actions she performed but the gigabytes of data released was only classed as sensitive. Manning's De-anonymization was assisted by information offered to the FBI by Adrian Lamo who was himself a convicted hacker who was also known as the homeless hacker because he spent a few years on the run before turning himself in. Adrian Lamo discovered a huge wide open publicly accessible hole in the computers owned by the New York Times. He was concerned that this hole might lead to easy disclosure of journalistic sources. So he sent them an email about it so that they might be able to fix it. So the NY times called the FBI. Or not. Parallel construction seems to be a meme for the FBI. Basically like your neighbor calling you up and saying to you that forgot to close the garage door. You know, the big one you drive your car through. This may also be just parallel construction on the FBI's part about the source of information on Manning because at that time the big domestic spying secret had not been released at that time.