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Comment by marta_morena_28

That's all well and good. However it still doesn't address three key factors:

* Everyone hates ads. You can try to shove it down their throats anyway by being a monopoly, but eventually this won't work anymore, since there is too much competition that doesn't rely on ad revenue and too many companies trying to block ads.

* Google doesn't have a solid revenue stream besides ads. And it's unclear how they are gonna get one. At least not in the magnitude they need to survive.

* Google faces strong competition on all fronts and all of them, except perhaps Facebook, don't count ad revenue as primary source of income. This puts Google at a substantial disadvantage, amplified by the first point: EVERYONE freakin hates ads

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