Yes, that's OK if it's symmetrical: why can't we easily automate Google search results?

It's asymetry here that is the problem, not Information Freedom.

And i'm pretty sure this is the line/dark pattern Google is hoping for: that people give credit to Google for "Information Freedom"... missing the real issue.

Obviously it is not just about information, but anything they can scrape bucks out of.

If it were a service they could copy, they would. Meaning probably your job as well.

So fine, they copy it and you are fine with it, you still offer a premium and theirs is a cheap copy and you have a business.

But in addition, to maximize profits, they also somehow prevent you selling your service. Like they did here by hiding visibility.

Meaning that they don't just offer same kind of thing, but prevent anyone buying anything but their own product.

And you will keep thinking this will happen to someone else, until it happens to you. It just starts from artists, writers, etc. whose work happens to be easy to copy with the current technology.