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They can make money without advertising. Selling your search queries correlated to your browser fingerprint, for example.

• ehnto 6y ago
  Indeed, which is probably worse. Advertising could in theory could be done ethically, unpersonalized, untracked.
  • yuhong 6y ago
    This is why my history of Google is important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008_financial_crisis_on_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
  • andrepd 6y ago
    I believe all advertising to be unethical, so there's that.
    • ehnto 6y ago
      I think I am probably not far off feeling the same way, so I am curious what your view is to make that the case?