It’s cyclical isn’t it? Android and Gemini then bring in shedloads of data Google uses to better profile customers for ad targeting and round and round they go.

Android could function as a nonprofit; it would just have to charge a licensing fee instead of remaining open source. But take it from the hands of Google and all that targeted data dries up. People search the web for all sorts of random crap; it’s not reliable data for ad so they have to become more generic, more ‘roadside billboard’