“free” service is usually paid for by advertisers (or by selling the personal data the service harvests from the users). So being surprised there are ads among the search results provided by “free” service makes it sound like it is that person’s first day on the internet
I feel like I’m not really understanding the question, but here ya go: The people who are willing to pay for it.
which, in this case, is the ad agency. hence the ad commenter i was replying to pretends seeing for the first time…
I still don’t think I understand the point you are trying to make.
“free” service is usually paid for by advertisers (or by selling the personal data the service harvests from the users). So being surprised there are ads among the search results provided by “free” service makes it sound like it is that person’s first day on the internet