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> bad behavior stems from the drive to make money

“The only moral income is my income”

It’s definitely an interesting POV. A lot of the way Google works comes from the fact that people use Google at the moment they’ve already decided they want to buy something. Versus say Instagram where you might see ads but you haven’t decided to buy something and then use Instagram. It comes down to what people other than you are using search engines for.




> A lot of the way Google works comes from the fact that people use Google at the moment they’ve already decided they want to buy something.

It is exactly the point at which returning sponsored links maximally screws the user over.


> A lot of the way Google works comes from the fact that people use Google at the moment they’ve already decided they want to buy something

You missed a key part of the comment:

> Offer the user a commercial activity slider. […] if a Commercial slider is slid to low or zero




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