> Folks whining about data collection should realize Google hasn't decided to be an ad company, it's just they have succeeded monetizing it better than their mo

> Folks whining about data collection should realize Google hasn't decided to be an ad company, it's just they have succeeded monetizing it better than their more recent cloud offering and in future their hardware business. Yet they still don't offer paid options, that allow me to remain anonymous for almost all of their systems. I don't see how anyone can imply that Google is reluctantly in the ad business when they don't even offer alternative monetization models.