These 2008 slides talking about "Ads Quality" really sound weird compared to today. The screenshots, with the ads being clearly visible, surrounded by yellow b

These 2008 slides talking about "Ads Quality" really sound weird compared to today. The screenshots, with the ads being clearly visible, surrounded by yellow boxes, and not taking too much screen real estate, are quite striking compared to the Search Result page now days (which feels a lot more blurry and sneaky). At the same time, we now get mandatory ads on Youtube, and personally, I was quite chocked by how low quality these can be. Best case, it's your traditional sugary food ads, worst case, it's propaganda or border line scam promo. Maybe Youtube always was that bad for the ~2/3 of people not using ad-blockers and I was blind to it. However, with the recent layoffs, the end of free money, the slow death of Twitter/X and the push for more monetization (ads on Youtube, API monetization on Reddit, etc), it feels we are reaching the end of an era.