The author should at least make users aware that data is being sent to Google servers. I don't see GDPR as preventing innovation. Quite on the contrary, it has

The author should at least make users aware that data is being sent to Google servers. I don't see GDPR as preventing innovation. Quite on the contrary, it has enabled European companies, which host their data by default in the EU, to create competitive products. That being said, I think in Europe there's, compared to the US, more old money controlled by people who don't like to share or lose their wealth.