Google makes money selling pharma ads. A lot of money. This can help them make more.
...Anymore. They did exactly this from basically launch up to 2017, and they only stopped because it was scaring corporate customers away from buying GSuite. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/tech...
Admittedly those social codes are really legacy cruft that SV should refactor so we can better monetizing suffering.