On July 1st, Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months, again with Ruth Talbot, but also Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies, How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World, October 29th, and then most recently, just before the holidays, again with Ruth Talbot, Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google's Black Box Ad Empire. And for me, my obsession with digital ads goes back to at least about the end of 2016, when I just woke up and realized not just that, well, Google and Facebook make their money primarily from ads, but realizing the scale of the manipulation and fraud taking place in digital ads.