[fakedang]

The thing is, if Google chose to be evil, how much room do they have? They're losing in Cloud, they're losing money/barely breaking even with YouTube, and they don't really have room to monetize stuff like Gmail, YouTube, the play store, etc else users would flee in droves.

Google really doesn't have enough room to be evil even if they tried - they've already exhausted most avenues that they could and failed. Imo, Google is actually under threat - if someone were to credibly show in detail how useless Google Ads actually are or how flawed/falsified their performance metrics are (perhaps via internal leaks a la Facebook, etc), Google could easily end up losing a lot of ad customers.