Yeah - i am arm chair theorising 100%....agree about Hanlon's Razor...since i was introduced to that idea - i have thought of it alot - but tbh for a company the size of google, i find it really difficult to be that charitable. It's just too convenient for a dealer of ads not to use any trick in the book to further grump users to engage with more ads, which...yep...pays them.

Yeah fair enough, I totally understand. Maybe I just want the world to be less malicious and more chill than it is :-)