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Google is part of a cartel of ad companies. Most websites do not have any option left. To blame small companies for choosing big tech monopolies is unfair and solves nothing.

Strong regulations and splitting monopolies are the real solutions here.

And if Google breaks the law someone from the company needs to go to prison, too. Knowingly helping criminals is a crime itself.

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You don't have to make it your business model to sell people's attention to those wanting to manipulate them.

When everybody is giving their product for free to compete with a paid product is almost impossible.

But I agree that it should not be like that and that governments around the world should regulate all these "free" services.

Huh? You have options? Tiny radio stations of 30 years ago all had their own ad department with a salesman who's job was to find advertisers. Most website shave enough reach to fund the own ads.

Also, if you along are not big enough, it was common to join with others (beware of anti-trust laws). You only need a few websites on your new less dodgy ad platforms and those who want to advertise will run to you because you control impressions. You probably won't get as rich as Google running a new ad company, but there is plenty of money to make a nice living selling non-dodgy ads.

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