> Google isn't interested in the mail of your random startup On the contrary: Google is absolutely interested in your startup's email, just not the content you

> Google isn't interested in the mail of your random startup On the contrary: Google is absolutely interested in your startup's email, just not the content you think. They don't care about Susan writing to HR about vacation days, but they absolutely care about your IT manager's correspondences with that Oracle rep that's trying to sell you their cloud offering. That way, Google can advertise the shit out of their competing offerings to you in order to "steal" you as a customer from their competitors. > Product-wise there is not a thing wrong in the world with GMail. I'm guessing you haven't been around HN for long enough to hear the myriad of horros stories about entire GSuite orgs being deleted because of things like a false-positive abuse detection on an employee's private account or one pirated movie uploaded by an employee by accident. And how none of them were able to even reach support without going through personal connections at big G (and even then, few were able to get things fixed). Google is a faceless corporation, managed more by algorithms than by people. You don't need an ideology to tell you why that's bad.