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To the surprise of no one, Google is being accused of abusing its power with ads (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/technology

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TLDR of the article:

Google is showing ads outside of YT, in those side players that everyone hates while they just want to read articles, but counting them as normal views.

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[–] greenskye 2 points 1 year ago

Google enticed users with extremely minimal ads so we all went there. Marketers now couldn't really advertise anywhere else, so they all went to google as well. Now that everyone's on board, google starts the enshittificaiton process. Rinse and repeat.