> This might true for Facebook. But Google isn't even a media platform, it's a search engine. It's just that search adverts happen to work better than newspaper

> This might true for Facebook. But Google isn't even a media platform, it's a search engine. It's just that search adverts happen to work better than newspaper adverts because their more targeted to people they're relevant too. If a Danish news paper profiled their advertising specifically for me because they happened to know how much money I spend on Warhammer figures, they would be breaking our laws. Even with the GDPR, Google can do the same thing legally. And google goes beyond just advertising doesn't it? If I google air humidity in my town, because I want to spray prime Warhammer figures, google selects which site it shows me the information from in the google widget thing. Maybe it's not as bad as Facebook, but what happens if you search for the covid-19 vaccine and you're an anti-vaxxer? What data ends up in googles info-boxes then?