Google's response to the European Commission fine
&gt; (...) connecting our users with thousands of advertisers, large and small, <i>in ways that are useful for both</i>.<p>We truly live in the age of spinning, of euphemisms, where words lose all their meaning. All-pervasive advertising, the most insidious technique of consumer capitalism, is now an idealistic connecting of people (why, rather than fining us indeed they should be thanking thanking us for that, they seem to say). Complete invasion of privacy and control over content and information reaching the person is &quot;enhancing the user experience&quot;, etc etc.