[mootzville]

Money talks. Google is not going to change. They are a public corporation whose ultimate motive is profit. Stop giving money to those corporations whose business model you disagree with. The question for the marketer is: Can you still be successful without Google Ads? If the answer is no, then you have already lost as you feel you are bound, and you are because you choose to be.

I say re-invent the marketing wheel. Grassroots, guerrilla-style advertising. What is that? I don't know, you're the marketer.