How can you possibly say this when google is making billions purely from advertising? One of the biggest companies in the world, whose biggest revenue stream, by an absolutely massive margin, and still growing, is ads.
I think you forget that we live in a bubble here and we do not generalise out to the rest of the population.
How many of those dollars come from mis-taps trying to back out of the growing volume of SEO hell garbage pages to get back to Google? Most people use the web on mobile, and most of them do not use ad blockers, so they experience the full power of this real phenomenon.
I think you forget that we live in a bubble here and we do not generalise out to the rest of the population.