>Advertising is a monetization modal. That's like saying that resteraunts are just credit card swiping businesses. Ads aren't the mechanism through which Googl

>Advertising is a monetization modal. That's like saying that resteraunts are just credit card swiping businesses. Ads aren't the mechanism through which Google receives payment, they're what Google is paid for. The actual claim your analogy matches is that Google is just an online credit card processing business. But nobody makes that claim.