Oddbean new post about login | logout Google exec said users get hooked on search engine like “cigarettes or drugs” Judge denied Google's request to redact portions of the "embarrassing" document. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-exec-said-users-get-hooked-on-search-engine-like-cigarettes-or-drugs/
@f1cf1cd7 Roszak wrote that Google's search advertising "is one of the world's greatest business models ever created" with economics that only certain "illicit businesses" selling "cigarettes or drugs" "could rival."Interesting how "don't be evil" Google's vice president for finance is openly comparing his company's business to big tobacco or the products of narcotics cartels.