Depends on the product, a lot of things exist to be ad bate, and don’t really serve a wider purpose. Tshirts is an example that comes to mind where people just buy dozens of designs they never wear.

The whole premise has become shopping is the fun activity, the product is just the waste from that activity that needs to be discarded.

So I guess sans ads we would see a lot less arbitrary products (and places like Amazon would take a hit [yay])

I would be curious to know how e-commerce would change though as without ads people would likely gravitate to the big box stores

This so usually stored on the photos as exif data

I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

I actually ended up switching to Kagi for this exact reason. Google is basically AI at the start usually spouting nonsense then sponsor posts and then a bunch of SEO optimized BS.

Thankfully paying for search circumvents the ads and it hasn’t been AI by default (it has it but it’s off) and the results have been generally closer to 2010s Google.