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Google has backup strategies and could pivot fast, not without shedding a lot of people. You're right, though - ad money is definitely providing bad incentives
by JAlexoid 6y ago
Google has backup strategies and could pivot fast, not without shedding a lot of people.
You're right, though - ad money is definitely providing bad incentives, but it also provides support for cooky projects. Marketing people also get to show their managers these nice graphs on ad spend "returns", that are complete lies.
Twitter and Facebook are much more tied into ad money, though.
- eitland 6y agoFacebook might be more tied to ad money and I dislike them even more than I dislike Google but they actually sometimes manages to show me relevant ads - and unlike their "bigger brother" most of the time without insulting me and my family badly in the process ;-)
- a_bonobo 6y agoI'm surprised how dodgy the Facebook and Twitter ads are. Maybe this is an Australian-localised thing influenced by all my various blockers and noscript extensions, but Twitter shows me 50% outright scams ('Twiggy Forrest says this is the deal of a lifetime!'), Facebook shows me 50% anime clothes which are clearly not officially made by Studio Ghibli. Amazing that this industry works.