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Re:American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other by Manuel_D on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:21PM (#30014230)
Devil's advocate: Advertising allows people to invest large amounts of money into products that don't charge end users. It allows largely equitable access to hugely powerful and complex information systems like Google search at no direct monetary cost to users.

Most people put the value of Google search on the order of thousands of dollars per year [1]. Imagine Google was a paid service: think of the academic disparity between the children of wealthy students who had access to Google and poorer students who do not.

1. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/25/how-much...

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Re:American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other by matheusmoreira on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:27PM (#30014350)
Google? You mean the billion dollar company that subverts web standards and gets away with it due to their browser monopoly? The one that nearly kills websites the second some advertiser becomes "concerned" over some content? The one that demonetizes actual creators for arbitrary reasons?

They are very much part of the problem. Google search? It's bad and gets worse every day because of advertising -- Google has stopped trying to fight SEO spammers.

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Re:American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other by peterburkimsher on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:23PM (#30014271)
Compromise suggestion: product placement?

Mix the ads inside the content so that the ad delivery mechanisms don't get in the way.

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