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Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by modeless on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:46PM (#16898137)
> actually, I would pay to use most of Google's good services.

A lot of people say this. You already can pay for Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Photos, and YouTube. Are you paying for them?

Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by larkeith on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:26PM (#16899279)
Does paying for these products disable tracking and provide strong privacy controls?
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by modeless on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:34PM (#16899317)
For G Suite, "Google does not sell your data to third parties, there is no advertising in G Suite, and we never collect or use data from G Suite services for any advertising purposes."

Also "G Suite's compliance with ISO/IEC 27018:2014 affirms our commitment to international privacy and data protection standards. ISO 27018 guidelines include not using your data for advertising, ensuring that your data in G Suite services remains yours, providing you with tools to delete and export your data, protecting your information from third-party requests, and being transparent about where your data is stored."

https://gsuite.google.com/security

Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by larkeith on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:32PM (#16899603)
Oh, huh. I might have to look into paying for that then.
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by dingaling on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:22AM (#16901510)
> You already can pay

Where 'you' is a minority subset of the Internet population.

I am in the UK and use Google Search and YouTube. The only way to pay is with my data.

Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by randomsearch on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:36PM (#16898447)
How do I pay?
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by modeless on Sunday April 22, 2018 @05:18PM (#16898641)
G Suite for Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar + phone support + other stuff: https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

Or, Drive storage by itself, which applies to most products with storage quotas such as Gmail and Photos: https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/

For YouTube, YouTube Red: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6305537

Another interesting experiment in the willingness of users to pay to remove ads is Google Contributor: https://contributor.google.com/

Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by scrollaway on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:23PM (#16898984)
To add to this, since I've started using GSuite for my personal account, I feel a hundred thousand times more comfortable with Google.

1. My Google identity is now my real email, the one tied to my real domain that I myself own. That's so much better. I can comfortably sign in/sign up with Google to other sites, have them tied to that email instead of my @gmail.com one.

2. I feel way more comfortable sharing every single detail of my life to Google. In fact, it turns what initially comes off as really creepy, into a useful life service because I'm now using things such as my map activity etc as a service I have a paid contract with Google for. And if I don't like it, I can hard disable the entire service.

3. I have access to a lot of stuff that regular free Google doesn't offer. Things such as undelete email/drive (which has been useful on a couple of accidental occasions), and, get this, support. Live chat and phone!

Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next? by randomsearch on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:42AM (#16902859)
This is pretty good. I've been considering moving over to Apple for everything to avoid Google, but this offers a partial solution.

If only I could pay a monthly fee to include search and maps!