I think Google actually has taken more or less the right stance here. I'm not entirely sure that most people understand the difference between "click this butto

I think Google actually has taken more or less the right stance here. I'm not entirely sure that most people understand the difference between "click this button to make my app work" and "click this button to make my app work, and oh by the way you are also agreeing to let us sell your data to a marketing firm". Clarifications like the below are good for the vast majority of users (your opinion about Google's own business model aside): "3rd-party apps accessing these APIs must use the data to provide user-facing features and may not transfer or sell the data for other purposes such as targeting ads, market research, email campaign tracking, and other unrelated purposes. (Note: Gmail users’ email content is not used for ads personalization.) As an example, consolidating data from a user’s email for their direct benefit, such as expense tracking, is a permitted use case. Consolidating the expense data for market research that benefits a third party is not permitted. We have also clarified that human review of email data must be strictly limited." [0] [0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/elevating-user-trust-in-our-api-ecosystems https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/elevating-use...