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by stingraycharles 5971 days ago
Right. At Google's scale, it will even benefit them a lot if other broadband providers provide a better service, since it promotes more use of the internet, and thus more ad income for Google.
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Or will make video ads more practical. Uhm, yay?
I guess people said the same thing when pictures were first being used on the net.

I'd say that it was still a net benefit not to be text only, wouldn't you agree? Ads can be annoying, but they also pay for a lot of what we're using online every day.