Comment by venturecruelty
4 days ago
Nobody has the right to put things on my screen that I don't want to see, first of all. Second, I'm never going to "convert", so I'm actually saving them money by blocking their ads, because now the ad will go to someone else who doesn't block it who might buy whatever Temu nonsense is being forced on them.
Edit: oh, I see you work at Google.
You mean DoubleClick. It's clear which business model took over after the merger.
I keep forgetting that they bought DoubleClick. Google has been a surveillance company for so long now that I've kind of forgotten there was ever a Before Times.
Doubleclick actually took over Google.
Perhaps not literally, as in on the financial books.
But certainly in leadership "values".