> its basically social charity in form of a free app. Sorry but that's almost comically out-of-touch with today's reality. If you've been paying any attention

> its basically social charity in form of a free app. Sorry but that's almost comically out-of-touch with today's reality. If you've been paying any attention you know exactly what Google takes from its users in return for this "social charity". Honestly, even calling it a "social charity" is kind of offensive to actual social charities. They're not giving away this data, or opening it up, it's entirely Google's property and they're actively putting up multiple barriers to discourage people from using the service without giving up their privacy, location data and everything. Imagine a corporation using a "social charity" as a lure like that. If that's a "social charity" then so is Facebook's thing with the "free internet" in India.