News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads. Parent comment

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by mattlondon on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:11PM (#14621346)
Except web-based (or "cloud" now I guess) services like gmail are not running on your computers (apart from the javascript, but you can see that so you should be happy).

In this case it is google's code running on google's computers.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by sedachv on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:29PM (#14622065)
> In this case it is google's code running on google's computers.

Which is mostly based on Free Software, starting with GNU/Linux. The Affero General Public License is intended to disallow this loophole of "it is only running on our servers, hence we are technically not distributing it, so we do not have to release the code": https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

[ Parent | on HN ]