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Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by LeifCarrotson on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:53PM (#22352758)
You're missing my point completely.

When the complex system of people and laws and org charts and incentives and procedures that is the organism known as Google makes a decision, whether or not a particular decision is virtuous or not is insignificant.

Even if it was, trying to change their behavior through occasional social interaction is as unlikely to make Google provide good customer service as brushing your teeth without water is unlikely to fix California central valley aquifer depletion. There's a system that rewards Google with billions of dollars and a system that sprays water into the desert that you're fighting against. Ignoring that system, and advocating that people pour emotional effort into ineffective responses, is so unhelpful as to be counterproductive.

Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by goatinaboat on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:27AM (#22354390)
and incentives and procedures that is the organism known as Google makes a decision, whether or not a particular decision is virtuous or not is insignificant.

True but you can influence an organism by influencing its cells too. Think global, act local.

Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads by dmix on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:58PM (#22353336)
It’d be nice if the anti trust people in the US looked into this as a factor. Anti consumer behaviour, not even non-customers as the usual case, but their own customers are being exploited by their monopolistic hold on ad publishers.