>It's a little friend in your pocket No, it's not. Google is entirely incentivised to extract the maximum amount of value from those reliant on their services,

>It's a little friend in your pocket No, it's not. Google is entirely incentivised to extract the maximum amount of value from those reliant on their services, and the level of dependence is proportional to how much much they can potentially make off you. This is how a company works, and this is fine, but it is very dangerous to imagine that Google has anyone's best-interest at heart except their own.