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The people complaining about this better not be the same Thiel worshippers who constitute most of the Google hate here.

Thiel criticizes Google/Alphabet for hoarding any cash at all. A true technology company re-invests all its excess profit.

This "loss" corresponds to less than 7% of Google's gross profits in the same quarter.

It's the next sentence in the article. > The total number of files also includes source files copied into release branches, files that are deleted at the latest revision, configuration files, documentation, and supporting data files; see the table here for a summary of Google's repository statistics from January 2015.

None of what he wrote applies to any of the large advertisers which comprise 95%+ of Google's ad revenue. I can see some of it applying to tiny inconsequential mom and pop advertisers.

Of course performance/direct-action advertisers would not bid per impression if they wanted clicks or conversions (they would bid for clicks or conversions), and if they were a brand advertiser they would pay for views and monitor brand awareness metrics (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3499086?hl=en). And they would also monitor their placement reports and filter out low quality sites if they wanted. And YouTube is growing rapidly and that is not ignorable.

Also, Google search ads still account for most of Google's ad revenues.

IMO this is a very sensationalist article which greatly exaggerates advertiser ignorance and platform mischief.

Very scary. Not only am I even MUCH more sedentary than this guy, and also 34 years old, according to 23andme I am at very very high risk for blood clotting.