Google created Chrome, and bribed Mozilla with billions, to keep ad blocking from becoming a standard browser feature.

The Google search engine could be run for some small number of billions per year (or less) but Google extracts tens of billions per year from our pockets. It's a leech on society in the same way that Wall Street is.

They successfully propagandized the idea that "relevant ads are good" when it's patently obvious that relevant search results are what you want from a search engine. There's no need for ads at all.