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spandrew | 6 months ago

A social media ad company would be the least favourable. At least Google's central ad business is based off of search queries the user gives to them willingly for value.

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athenot|6 months ago

I think google amasses far more information via website analytics, Gmail and SSO (Log in with Google) than "willingly"-input search queries.

rpgbr|6 months ago

This was the case, like, 20 years ago. Google is effectively an ad company that makes tech — including a browser — to gather more data from users and sell ads.

marcosdumay|6 months ago

They have no lack of attempts to change their central business into a social media ad company, tough. They just failed.