Comment on why do some people really dislike google??

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• tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can be absolutely sure they’re selling it to every company and national government that will pay for it.

  If you’re part of a marginalized group that some government would like to commit a human rights violation against in the last decade, chances are Google was a gleeful enabler on the government side.

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  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I worked for a certain “big data” company that bought browsing histories from Google (and many other companies). They absolutely sell your data; and without even anonymising the personal identification information before selling it.

    (I lasted 6 weeks before the lack of ethics forced me to quit. Needed the job to pay rent and buy groceries, but I couldn’t buy enough soap to cleanse my soul).

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