I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I’m very sure there is even more data they have.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    As a percentage of population, so did Julius Caesar.

    The reality is that Google is entirely dependent on ads and selling your data.

    Apple and Microsoft, it’s just a happy side gig they can do.

    Apple makes its money selling mediocre hardware and software for a premium markup.
    Microsoft makes money selling Windows, Office(+Teams) and Azure to business users then from video games, then ad revenue.

      • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        Oh I got your point, but I also reject it. Google is objectively making the internet worse.

        There isn’t any reasonable comparison to Apple or MS outside of they’re all too big and too unregulated.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Well, that’s wrong. They all collect data and telemetry on you.