I hate the modern designs like this in apps or websites.
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Different things inflate in different amounts. Right now the inflation on fuel is much higher than the inflation on tomatoes or hotel prices where Russian instagirls used to visit.
When central banks started printing money, people didn't bid the price of bread, butter or automobiles up. So this didn't register as a increase in the cost of living (except for housing, which they did indeed bid up).
This central bank money went to financial assets like stocks. That is why the price increases in stocks have been faster than the price increases in consumer products.
Commodities is a good place to be. This war does not look like it's going to end. You can expect high commodity prices as long as it continues.
Furthermore, if the stocks didn't go up liek they did, there would be a massive issue meeting pension and retirement obligations.
But you are right. This could motivate them to move to a single domain for all Google content. But this is just another escalation in the adblock arms range. uBlock-style blockers would proliferate.
"Pay 5 euros per month for the ad-blocker privacy feature!"
They could probably make a lot of money from this.
This would solve Google's immediate problem, but it's such a huge escalation that I expect lots of unintended effects not to Google's benefit. There is a reason they haven't done this, despite widespread adblocking use.
Also, they don't want to learn? Seriously? Since can people get away with not wanting to do their jobs?