On: Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "...

[chrischen]

Advertisers don't want to spend wastefully either. So if they know you won't spend, then you shall get less ads.

[drewp → chrischen]

Eventually all the ad dollars will be spent changing you into someone who does want to spend more money.

[chrischen → drewp]

That's propaganda, brainwashing, whatever you want to call it. But by my definition (the one I'm talking about; I didn't create it) it's not advertising, and I think Google is working to achieve my definition of advertising.