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There is no such thing as a never changing service. That is a fantasy in any industry. There is nothing sudden about asking money for a free service, you must

• hnfong 4y ago
  > There is no such thing as a never changing service. That is a fantasy in any industry. There's no such thing as "never", but you can definitely pay enough for a service that the service provider agrees to not change things for a certain period of time. The main risk is that the company might disappear but that's why some businesses choose large established players instead of SMEs. > There is nothing sudden about asking money for a free service, you must expect to pay for value provided at some point. For a long time the value users provided to Google was the data. But of course that promotion was more important than the public good-will...
  • yunohn 4y ago
    > but you can definitely pay enough for a service That’s exactly the issue here - they weren’t paying anything for the service provided. > For a long time the value users provided to Google was the data But Google doesn’t and hasn’t used Workspace data for Ads (1). That would be bad business. (1) https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-whitepaper/page-6.html https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-wh...