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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by johnchristopher on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:09PM (#14528398)
> Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that are nowhere near as profitable: gmail, maps, photos, chrome, android, translate, youtube, drive, waze, where do you think the money for this stuff all comes from?

Hey. I'd be happy to pay for a gmail, photos, maps if that removes the creepy ad-business.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by mark_l_watson on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:17PM (#14528445)
+1 I agree!

Usually (when not traveling) I try to avoid Google's free services like search, the excellent Google Assistant, Maps, etc. That said, I use Google constantly for stuff I pay for: Google Cloud Platform, buying movies and TV shows on Google Play, pay for a YouTube Red + Play Music family plan, and use their One a Day charity site.

I would be delighted to pay $10/month for the current 'free' Google services if they strongly protected privacy.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by quadrangle on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:40PM (#14529329)
But I don't want anyone doing this just for themselves. We need the creepy ad-business removed for everyone because it affects society overall. Google wants to have it both ways: pay them and they won't advertise at you (maybe eventually agree not to track you as much even), or for that matter, you can use an adblocker etc. as long as you keep using Google so they retain their dominance and can then track and advertise at others.
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