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I disagree -- the original AdWords felt like it was intended to be different. It was visually subtle, ads were clearly marked as ads, and the way it worked was

I disagree -- the original AdWords felt like it was intended to be different. It was visually subtle, ads were clearly marked as ads, and the way it worked was completely transparent. Google made a choice to enshittify AdWords.

threeseed 3y ago
The Google Ads I am looking at right now are visually subtle, clearly marked as ads and I run a lot of them and everything is very transparent about how it all works. And my point is that when you decide to become an advertising company it is inevitable that you are going to want to acquire ever more data about your users.