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- privacyguides@lemmy.one
The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.
The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.
All of googles products except cloud exist to either sell customer data to companies to advertise to or they direct you to websites who pay.
They are an ad data company. Search is a means to deliver ads. Chrome, mail, docs, etc were all there for ecosystem lock in… for what money? Customer data. For ads. Google+? User base. For ads.
Youtube doesnt make them shit except for advertising. Youtube premium isnt selling which is why they are getting aggressive with it.
Google is an advertising company and secondarily , a cloud provider.