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Don't they make more by treating their customers as products (though i wouldn't call them customers because they receive no support, whether they pay or not)

• shajznnckfke 6y ago
  How do they make money from giving their users free photo storage? I think the only path for that to be profitable was to grow the username for future subscription revenue.
  • akmarinov 6y ago
    You agree to have your photos analyzed and used in advertising. They sell the data to advertisers and make money off of you.
    • shajznnckfke 6y ago
      As an advertiser how do I buy user data from Google photos?
      • akmarinov 6y ago
        Set up a campaign and target a particular group
        • dragonwriter 6y ago
          Doesn't have anything to do with Photos data, since Photo, Drive, Gmail, etc. are explicitly not used as inputs for that.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      > You agree to have your photos analyzed and used in advertising. No, you don't. > They sell the data to advertisers and make money off of you. No, they don't. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-private-information-private/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-priva... “As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period.”