[erddojo]

People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers.

Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, therefore by working there you may not be required to also sacrifice yours for a paycheck.

Flip side; there are those who believe ads aren't evil. Google builds a lot of interesting tech. It's probably a great place for engineers. But one look at their financial reporting and it's still evident that advertising pays the bills.

[Oletros]

The products is ad space, not the users

[Apachez]

This pic comes to mind: http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/SocialMediaAndYo...

[Oletros]

Funny pic, but it is the same wrong claim

[erddojo]

If the product was the ad space, Google would be out of business.

The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.

[hahainternet]

> The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.

What shit, show me how I can buy some. Show me some that someone has bought.

[fennecfoxen]

It's a rental.

[Oletros]

Can you show me how can I rent that data?

[fennecfoxen]

http://www.google.com/ads/new/

[Oletros]

> The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers

Can you put just one link that show that Google sell data to advertisers?