Ads make nice things crappy. Not just because of the ads and spying that comes along with them, but also because when a product or service is ad-driven, then it becomes optimized to increase ad revenue rather than being a good product.

"negligible price" and "occasionally" are outright lies in just that one tiny snippet of this opinion piece. I was going to highlight more, but there are just too many. Read this article if you love examples of private industry using rhetoric techniques straight from 1984