@randomwizard@vivaldi.net The impact in this article is represented as hurting "content providers" who monetize their clicks. Quite frankly, I could not care less if those sites have to suddenly become paywalled and thus die a lingering death. If they hadn't latched onto the 'surveillance capitalism' mentality and focused on eking every last fraction of a cent out of traffic maybe I'd be more sympathetic.
Google Search or no, if I go to a site 6 times out of 10 i get a JavaScript 'popup' asking me to disable my adblocker. Funny - I don't use one, but I do use Privacy Badger and the anti-tracking settings in my browser. If sites weren't trying to suckle on the advertising teats of Google for money this would be just a matter of waiting on a substandard product (search) to be replaced by something that works better for people.

just my 0.02.