> Point of order: their inline-ad-placement on search results is evil. I don't think that is necessarily evil, but it certainly is embarrassing for Google sinc

> Point of order: their inline-ad-placement on search results is evil. I don't think that is necessarily evil, but it certainly is embarrassing for Google since Google used to make fun of competing search engines for that exact behavior back when Google was still the underdog. Spying on everyone's credit/debit card transaction data, on the other hand, is definitely evil. > as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-analytics-innovations.html https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal...