Is google good or bad in this situation?
What Emanuel said. Times are changing. fonts.googleapis.com and several tens of thousands of OTHERS have been blackholed in my local DNS for ages. Far fewer CPU cycles to kill them on-box. Zero load on the external link bandwidth.
Less-technoidal folk are using adblockers and tracker-blockers, and, and, and... most of which DO put a load on the bandwidth to go check a remote blocklist and/or keep local copies up-to-date. Some of them are THEMSELVES "spyware". I rely on /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, and how BIND works, then "front" even that with Privoxy instead for the dynamic toolset.
More folks are doing this with each passing week, adverts and other intrusives - and the malware they sometimes carry - have gotten so bad.
IF one does a website? Simple "static" pages work.
I have, and would again, store them in PostgreSQL.
PG can DIRECTLY spit-out a complete dynamic-sourced, but "static"-presented, on-demand web-page from stored header(s), footer(s), dynamic content components very easily with ZERO need of php, python, ruby, perl, ECMA-script, wotever, wotever, coding-PITA, security risks, or annoying maintenance overheads.
eBay? Never sold there. I don't sell at all.
Time was, I BOUGHT a lot there.
No longer.
The barrier to me has not been the fees, nor even the constantly-changing terms.
It has been how they cobbled their search function to drag-in so much
irrelevant shite to try to take advantage of instant-gratification spend.
It has become too time-consuming to FIND what I actually WANT on ebay to be worth the bother of starting a search.
PM OTOH?
Around three dozen PM members I have bought goods - and/or services - from by now.
Only a few more than once, but, then only a few are even part-time vendors, here. Most were just reg'lar members with some odd machine, measuring device, or tooling they no longer needed.
100% satisfied.
First time.
Every time.