It's still an advertising company you're doing business with.
I mean, would you buy cookies from a brand that is known for producing rodenticides?
I mean, would you buy cookies from a brand that is known for producing rodenticides?
I mean, the company that makes Raid also makes Saran Wrap and Ziploc bags. Corporate conglomerates can do lots of things.
The entire Google Cloud org is funded by regular customers paying money, not advertising.
That can’t be true, how did they bootstrap it? How do they pay for R & D for their half baked offerings?
Advertisers paid money for Google for totally unrelated services. Google invested that money in a number of ways. One of them was to build this very profitable non-advertising business. The advertisers didn't fund that business any more than the advertisers funded US treasuries, or the dozens of startups that Google has invested in as a VC.
This is a thread about using your money for better things than paying an ad company. The comment that started this argument you want to have pointed out that it’s self sustaining. But I pointed out that wasn’t always true. Tfsh backed my claim.
So today maybe there isn’t a problem to which your money isn’t being spent with the ad org but it was that way for a very long time to which we can grant the OP some grace as it’s a rather recent change.
There is even still an argument to be made that while you may not be giving money to the ad org you are still giving money to Google thereby helping them deflect the damage they cause the world in their other orgs.
The ads were providing income to Google which allowed Google to bootstrap Cloud until it was profitable on its own, not vice-versa.
When you buy (or bought) Cloud services, that doesn't affect Google's ad revenue or advertising behavior at all, not for the better and not for the worse. They're basically unrelated orgs within the corporation. Using Cloud isn't promoting ads or whatever you seem to think, not now and not previously.
You could have saved us all a lot of time by simply stating upfront that you hate Google as a whole, rather than discussing the technicalities of which parts have to do with advertising or not.
In a sense, yes, it was bootstrapped by ads and now pays for itself.