All companies that are dependent on ad money have cognitive dissonence, in that most “care” about their users but the users are not their customer anymore. They

All companies that are dependent on ad money have cognitive dissonence, in that most “care” about their users but the users are not their customer anymore. They eventually revert to only providing enough value to keep users, or try to lock in users via monopolies or legal means so they can spend resources on ad technology or enablers of them.