Except they only need money because they frittered away the massive Google subsidy on pointless projects rather than building up an endowment while sticking to

Except they only need money because they frittered away the massive Google subsidy on pointless projects rather than building up an endowment while sticking to core goals. … which, in fairness, is itself a species of selling ads! But setting a search engine default is far more benign than what they’re planning here.