> Of course they don't complain about ads; that's paying their salary.

You agree then that GGP's assertion doesn't fit the data.

> doubleclick.net was universally reviled for pushing all the ad tech that everybody hates

I'm willing to bet your company uses that ad-tech.

The reason I dislike Google is for all the actually evil things it has done. Its implementation of ad-tech doesn't pass the evil bar.