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Re:Why I Work on Ads by tonyedgecombe on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:12PM (#27065410)
I wouldn't be surprised if Adwords is a net loss for the majority of Google's customers. The whole thing is full of dark patterns. Personally I got so fed up with the abusive nature of it that I abandoned it several years ago.
Re:Why I Work on Ads by double0jimb0 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:47PM (#27068856)
I like to think of google ads the IRS of the internet. I pay my ad agency to minimize my google ads tax, not to grow business, same instructions I give to my tax accountant. Google will argue that everyone wins if you grow and pay more google tax, but many have tested this and proved it not to be true. Said another way, how good of a job your tax accountant is doing is orthogonal to growing your business.