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The thing is, I'm not against a little ad here and there from time to time. I understand that someone needs to pay for the things we use "for free".
But what is going on now is just plain old exploitation. Nothing more nothing less.
Back when Google started, the idea was to only show discrete text ads on search. Then they started showing image ads and created AdSense which basically shows Google ads on external pages. The real killer was when Google bought doubleclick. Until then Google didn't do ad tracking but with dclk (which has a tracking cookie) things went downhill fast. Ever wonder why Google ads domains are (or used to be) doubleclick.net? Because changing the domain would make Google lose all those yummy doubleclick tracking cookies.