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How is it really different? If Google don't get you to use and keep using their service, they lose you as a product to sell to their advertising clientele. User

• JadeNB 17y ago
  > Users are still indirectly their revenue source. It's not clear to me that that's enough. I think that a lot of the current state of the world can be explained by the inability of people—and companies are run by people, and, much as one would hope stupidity would experience destructive interference, it doesn't seem to do so—to pay attention to indirect effects of their actions. (Maybe Google will avoid this trap—they have so far, emphasising discreet and inoffensive ads over the in-your-face ones that advertisers seem to prefer—but I wouldn't bet on it forever.)