> Questions people are asking each other on Reddit, Discord or Facebook about what phone to buy are questions they are not asking Google, and that costs Google money. It's as simple as that

When your main business is to rob and plunder, any attemt at self-defence looks like a threat.

We had a great ecosystem of open, public forums and websites where people had discussions and produced valuable information. Google milked it dry and turned it into a barren wasteland.

Now they have nothing left to plunder and their search is filled with adspam.

Well maybe they should produce some valuable content themselves.

Instead they now earn money from scams, I get youtube ads for a project by Elon Musk to give British people iniversal basic income powered by AI, but you have to pay to sign up!