I hope people understand that their profits come as a result of monopolistic abuse and pitting advertisement buyers against each other in a bidding war. We are

I hope people understand that their profits come as a result of monopolistic abuse and pitting advertisement buyers against each other in a bidding war. We are all paying into Google coffers a tiny bit. Maybe it's not a zero-sum game, but it's not an unlimited-sum game either. Google is doing this at the expense of the general public, through hundreds of mini-dark patterns designed to extract data and sell it back to us, at a markup (in dollars or attention). The business may be impressive from the point of big numbers, but that's all it is. It stopped being impressive after the search quality has gone downhill and none of the other products panned out.