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Google is a data mining and extraction company. That's hard to argue with. Are you complaining about the "sells personal information" part?

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• Eridrus 9y ago
  Google does a lot of different things, but people with an axe to grind often like to label Google as something specific that they dislike. In this case they call it a data mining company, which is both meaningless due to how vague the term is, but also slightly menacing sounding. Does Google do things that would fall under a reasonable interpretation of data mining? Definitely. Is it their primary activity? Not by a long shot. Even the people who want to label Google an advertising company have more of a point on a revenue basis. But these characterisations are needlessly reductive and lead you to believe false conclusions like "Google wants all of your data"
  • eeZah7Ux 9y ago
    > slightly menacing sounding As it should be. They are aggressively capturing and selling people data from phones and browsers, as proven by large amounts of evidence. This is pretty factual, please don't call it "bias".
    • Klockan 9y ago
      > They are aggressively capturing and selling people data from phones and browsers, as proven by large amounts of evidence. I'm interested, where can I go and buy some user data from Google?
  • ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    Google's primary activity is collecting and monetizing your personal data. That's what their ad business is based on, and their ad business is really the only thing they do that makes money (in Google scale terms of money, anyways). It doesn't matter what department someone at Google works at, their paycheck is paid for by the monetization of that data mining. Anything else Google does is either a route to more data mining and extraction, or a fun side project they do with money made off data mining and extraction.