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Id just be really uncomfortable with google monitoring, recording and analyzing my personal communications to sell me ads or worse later. Everything google does now feels.... invasive for lack of a better word. This is something Id like to see from Apple, and Im not an Apple fan at all.


I was surprised today when I opened Gmail and it displayed this: https://i.imgur.com/SHSOSJ7.png

I was ok with Gmail scanning my emails to finetune targeted advertisement. But they don't do that, which is a nice surprise.


> Google Cloud (which offers Meet) doesn't use customer data for advertising. Google Cloud doesn't sell customer data to third parties.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9852160?hl=en-GB#zipp...

Why would this be any different?


I do not trust what comes out of Google PR vs what their engineers do behind the scenes. They've been caught in the past doing nefarious things or just a general disconnect/interpretation between what they say and what they do. Because they are an advertising company I always assume that takes priority with direction.


How can you prove they don't do that?


Do you pay for youtube?


I don't publish content on YouTube, but YouTube is also not intimate communication with friends and family.




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