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What free services do you operate?

by gowld 5y ago

madrox 5y ago
Indeed. I can hardly blame any company for shutting down a free tier of service. I think many people would've been happy if Google Reader would've stuck around for a monthly fee.
albertopv 5y ago
You don't really think Google services are really free, right? Nobody paid me for my data.
hunterb123 5y ago
Google doesn't operate "free services", they operate services in exchange for user data and advertising views. A lot of the times it's a bait and switch. They give you a service in exchange for your data, then they pull the service away once they've got it.
tjr225 5y ago
Doesn’t google harvest advertising data from all of their “free” offerings?
- judge2020 5y ago
  Workspace ads work differently - for example, before 2017, Google didn't scan Workspace email for ad targeting (they no longer do it for personal email inboxes either[0]). That's the general rule, any official Workspace products[1] won't display ads or contribute to an advertising profile[2]. 0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513/google-says-it-will-no-longer-read-users-emails-to-sell-targeted-ads https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513... 1: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/user_features.html#:~:text=Google%20Workspace%20Services%3A https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/user_features.htm... 2: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650#zippy=%2Cdoes-google-use-my-organizations-data-in-google-workspace-services-or-cloud-platform-for-advertising-purposes https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650#zippy=...
ipaddr 5y ago
Google has a monopoly and are part of many dupolies in many areas. Offering free services to create lockin and switching the terms is the basis of the complaints here. Many small companies had a business around maps. Google's free products kill most of them. Now that they are gone google starts charging to embed maps. What free services has the parent offered killing a market only to require payment short after? None..

What free services do you operate?

by gowld 5y ago

What free services do you operate?

Indeed. I can hardly blame any company for shutting down a free tier of service. I think many people would've been happy if Google Reader would've stuck around for a monthly fee.

albertopv 5y ago

You don't really think Google services are really free, right? Nobody paid me for my data.

hunterb123 5y ago

Google doesn't operate "free services", they operate services in exchange for user data and advertising views. A lot of the times it's a bait and switch. They give you a service in exchange for your data, then they pull the service away once they've got it.

tjr225 5y ago

Doesn’t google harvest advertising data from all of their “free” offerings?

judge2020 5y ago
Workspace ads work differently - for example, before 2017, Google didn't scan Workspace email for ad targeting (they no longer do it for personal email inboxes either[0]). That's the general rule, any official Workspace products[1] won't display ads or contribute to an advertising profile[2]. 0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513/google-says-it-will-no-longer-read-users-emails-to-sell-targeted-ads https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513... 1: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/user_features.html#:~:text=Google%20Workspace%20Services%3A https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/user_features.htm... 2: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650#zippy=%2Cdoes-google-use-my-organizations-data-in-google-workspace-services-or-cloud-platform-for-advertising-purposes https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650#zippy=...

ipaddr 5y ago

Google has a monopoly and are part of many dupolies in many areas. Offering free services to create lockin and switching the terms is the basis of the complaints here. Many small companies had a business around maps. Google's free products kill most of them. Now that they are gone google starts charging to embed maps. What free services has the parent offered killing a market only to require payment short after? None..