[eternalban]

The fairy ad business model.

Don't know about Facebook (never been) but I keep hearing about this fabled Google Ad business and honestly, not only I can't recall the last time I even noticed one, needless to say have never even clicked on one. Some interested party wants to keep these surveillance cum social networks afloat and the fairy ad business model and overblown evaluations and VC cash is the front for funding them.

[defen]

> I keep hearing about this fabled Google Ad business

The one that makes 19 billion dollars per quarter?

[eternalban]

That's the cash flow, the hypothesized white washed flow of funds to select platforms under control of the said interested parties.

[eksemplar]

You can't use google much if you haven't noticed the top three results on your searches sometimes being tagged with the word "sponsored". Unless the reason it's showing here, is an European law thing?

[eternalban]

I've been using it since pretty much since it came out. In the early days I definitely noticed the ads on the side, but very quickly it pretty much got filtered away in my eyes along with window decorations, etc.

[colejohnson66]

They say it here in America. But uBlock blocks it :)