It’s getting exponentially harder to achieve their expected growth rates. They haven’t managed to find another significant revenue source beside ads so they have to squeeze everything out of that. Kind of sad that all the super smart people there still haven’t come up with any product they can sell with enough revenue besides ads.

It's not at all strange they can't just pop out a few more of those.

Google deserves as much condemnation for introducing those as it does for the recent redesign.

I think most people don’t realize it’s Google’s fault and blame the sites.

Thank you the comment. It explains so much of how the Internet has gotten markedly worse in the last couple months.

These “auto” AdWords are totally overwhelming and awful.

Absolutely. That's how I noticed what 'Auto Ads' really did. People thought my site was infected by malware and contacted me with screenshots.