i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      8 months ago

      That would be bad for business. Why sell data to the highest bidder once when you can insert yourself in their value chain and seek rent forever?

        • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
          19·
          8 months ago

          I looked it up on Google and it said google is one of the good guys!

          /sarcasm (circular reasoning)

          • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
            216·
            8 months ago

            circular reason is also this?? (i looked it up on brave search and it said google is evil!!) both are bad arguments, i’m so sorry.

        • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
          319·
          8 months ago

          well, with all blog articles, not everything has to be taken literally, maybe sometimes it’s just criticism or a misunderstanding. for example breaching user security, yes they did it, but for the safety of other people, so i’m sorry.

          • subignition@fedia.io
            20·
            8 months ago

            Multi-billion-dollar corporations do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Companies do not act morally unless they are legally compelled to.

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
            14·
            8 months ago

            They will give incredibly private information to the highest bidder.

            just criticism or a misunderstanding

            Sure dude

        • al4s@feddit.de
          31·
          8 months ago

          They sell ad spots based on their data about you - IMHO that’s very different from outright selling your data.

        • inge@discuss.tchncs.de
          15·
          8 months ago

          lawsuit claims

          It’s right in the title. So you claim it is true. I can also claim that you sell my personal data. Doesn’t make it true.

          Let that lawsuit play out, and wait for the verdict.

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
            16·
            8 months ago

            In 2019, Google agreed to pay $170 million to settle claims by the FTC and New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the suit noted. Last year, a French high court upheld a 50 million Euro fine against Google over alleged failure to obtain users’ consent for using their data for ad targeting, the suit said.

            Many settled claims too.