I don't think advertising is bad, provided: 1. It's easy for people to tell the difference between advertising and not-advertising. 2. The collection of priva

I don't think advertising is bad, provided: 1. It's easy for people to tell the difference between advertising and not-advertising. 2. The collection of private information is strictly opt-in, owned by the collectee, and deletable by the collectee. 3. Advertising is a healthy competitive industry with no one company controlling a majority of the business. None of those things is true in the Googleverse today.