> I know, Never Attribute To Malice and all that, but hot damn, that must have been a massive multi million dollar move of "ignorance". I think that this sayin

> I know, Never Attribute To Malice and all that, but hot damn, that must have been a massive multi million dollar move of "ignorance". I think that this saying gets misapplied quite frequently. If you are talking to someone one on one, then you should assume that they are simply mistaken. Otherwise, you don't stand a chance of convincing them to see things another way. On the other hand, in trying to predict somebody else's actions, assuming malice can give the most accurate prediction. On the part of Google, I don't know whether the nigh-unidentifiable ads are the result of some cackling executive trying to trick people to click on ads, or whether it is the result of overzealous A/B testing that stumbled upon a dark pattern. In the end, it doesn't matter, and either one is a good approximation of what will happen in the future.