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Very well said! I have seen livelihoods completely devastated by these sorts of things. Google Adwords, getting banned from there, can destroy a content prod

• adventured 12y ago
  When hasn't this been true in business history? If your real estate business is heavily built around advertising in a local newspaper, and you get kicked off that by a competitor locking up an exclusivity deal, or the newspaper goes out of business - then what? Then you have to change your business. There's absolutely nothing unique or new to Google Adwords when it comes to resting your fate with a platform. There is no such thing as a world without platforms, such that you can never be dependent on one; the only choice you have is what platform you're going to depend on.
• briandear 12y ago
  Probably a bad idea to structure your entire business on a single third party.