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No organisations put things through in giant blazing neon letters. One employee quietly pushes a bit, another a different bit and ten bits later we're all like, WTF?
Google has been trying to ensure they can serve everyone ads for a while. There's a reason the author of uBlock clearly states that the Chrome version isn't as good.
I miss old Google that refused to use anything but small text boxes for advertising. Shit, I saw they actually put an ad in the search history drop-down of the Play Store app now.