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"Your extension prevents billions of ads from being showed and we want that money."

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  They'd get +googol respect from me if they'd ever actually say that line. It sucks that companies can't just communicate honestly about their intentions.
  • soup10 7y ago
    Not exactly a secret, this is a quote from their Q1 earnings call: "Let me now turn to our segment financial results. Starting with the Google segment, revenues were $36.2 billion, up 17% year-over-year. In terms of the revenue detail, Google Sites revenues were $25.7 billion in the quarter, up 17% year-over-year. In terms of dollar growth, results were led again by mobile search with a strong contribution from YouTube, followed by Desktop Search. Network revenues were $5 billion, up 8% year-on-year, continuing to reflect the performance of the primary drivers of growth, AdMob, followed by Google Ad Manager."
    • TeMPOraL 7y ago
      Sure, but the words in the previous comment of yours were direct statement of intent. That's different from talking about what are the drivers of revenue, without mentioning what are the problems and whether they want to do something about them.
      • soup10 7y ago
        Yea, the funniest thing is I bet a big percentage of Googlers use ublock origin. Their entire business is based around pushing annoying ads that nobody wants on people.