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"Google ... seem to be subtler but just as devoted to pulling me into their corporate bubble, where I become an unpaid 'content provider' who lures people into being tracked and getting hand-crafted advertisements. Conversations on G+ were sufficiently interesting at first that I was willing to not worry about this. Now they're rarely interesting."
-- John Baez, on G+
https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/VfpckkCMsj6
@vfrmedia So, yes, G+ is ad-free.
@dredmorbius presumably they hope(d)? to gain some data from the engagement times or nature of articles read.
Which makes it even more strange that (as its not really such a hard task nowadays) the article box doesn't resize to the maximum permitted by the browser.
@dredmorbius never used G+ much as wasn't sure quite how to use it and and UI seems to keep changing almost at random
In fact looking at that article was thinking WTF? Why all the white space on desktop browser? (I'm sure it wasn't there previously).
I'm not even seeing warnings from ublock origin so its not even that the whitespace would have been occupied by ads?!