• joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now I feel they are harvesting all my data to jam ads down my throat.

    I’m curious: how did you expect them to pay for the overhead of providing this service? I’m sure you didn’t think that they would just eat the cost of providing it forever, right?

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      recurrant subscriptions, Corprate mail hosting, non invasive ads, not double-dipping, notreadimg your mail

      It doesnt make all the money, but its not corrupt.

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      1 year ago

      This is not the users problem. This is googles problem.

      If they want to give away a thing for free, then don’t be surprised when people take that thing for free.

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          They run roughly a 50% profit margin, with ~80% of their budget coming from advertising revenue. Given that that’s amounting to about 100B year over year, with the Orwellian scope of their, what word can I use, surveillance - I would call it excessive.

    • hellishharlot@lemmy.world
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      Personally I’m surprised that there’s not a premium tier that we can pay for to get quality back on Google services. Google business is the same crap but with a custom domain