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Good for them. Google comes through your email to build a profile for advertising. They claim its anonymous (but unique) id, but I have my doubts.
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
Good for them. Google comes through your email to build a profile for advertising. They claim its anonymous (but unique) id, but I have my doubts.
- mh- 4y ago> Google comes through your email to build a profile for advertising Not on GSuite accounts.
- malepoon 4y agoSo the students learn to use these "free" services and then later pay with their data for their personal accounts? Even worse if you ask me.
- kiwijamo 4y agoAnd what proof do we have to prove that? I suspect they do the same things to GSuite accounts.
- mh- 4y agoThe ToS.
- Nextgrid 4y agoJust like Facebook and Twitter claimed they wouldn't use 2FA phone numbers for advertising and did anyway? It doesn't even have to be malicious, it can happen accidentally. If the entire company is based on advertising and privacy violations then it's hard to truly have "private" data without building an entirely separate system in parallel, otherwise you could put your data in a place you think it's private, not realizing some other component of the system will use that for ad targeting.
- randomperson_24 4y agoYour emails are not scanned for building an advertising profile. This rumour comes up quite often, Google has thankfully stopped doing it for a long time now. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html