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https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 This person asks that she "demands answ

https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 This person asks that she "demands answers." Since when are beggars choosers? Google is free. Did we really expect a different behavior from them?

wallace_f 9y ago
Free in the most obvious sense, but they still profit off of you.
- jldugger 9y ago
  When I checked a few years ago, Youtube was still not actually profitable. There's a reason it's owned by the company that spins off so much free cash it doesn't know what to do with it all, I guess.
  - wallace_f 9y ago
    Google's parent company, Alphabet is hugely profitable.
FussyZeus 9y ago
Google is beholden to advertisers. You are not a customer, even when you are one, you are still the product delivered to them. Using their services is a choice but I've opted out of everything but search, and I'd like to get off of that too. Boggles my mind how people keep thinking Google is this benevolent entity hovering over us. It's a company, with balance sheets. Nothing more.