Does anyone know what's happening at Google? Have they grown to the point that the huge profits from web search aren't enough to sustain them or something?
I'm seeing Google ratchet up its monetization across all aspects:
- YouTube plays mandatory multiple ads
- Frontpage search is full of ads
- Gmail used to have some Infinity plus storage plan but now after 15gb is used you can't receive email. And they're using Photos towards this quota.
Nothing against paying for services but there's a noticeable and very aggressive drive towards lockin and monetization of its users.
Far more than before, so what happened to Google that's causing this?
I'm seeing Google ratchet up its monetization across all aspects:
- YouTube plays mandatory multiple ads
- Frontpage search is full of ads
- Gmail used to have some Infinity plus storage plan but now after 15gb is used you can't receive email. And they're using Photos towards this quota.
Nothing against paying for services but there's a noticeable and very aggressive drive towards lockin and monetization of its users.
Far more than before, so what happened to Google that's causing this?