After wrestling with Google Ads for a year my admiration went to zero.

Google is a mainly running a scam these days with completely blackboxed systems that absolutely fleece the little guy when not doing outright criminal auction price manipulation.

I don't know why this hasn't gotten more media attention. Probably because of stockholm syndrome in the publishing sphere.

Yes they pioneered amazing things but where they earn their money now, is through a labyrinth of dark designs and obfuscated systems in the borderlands of legality.