I think yes. Google has been considered "evil" by the tinfoil hat crowd for quite some time, and once again it has become apparent to the mainstream that they were right.

[0] can't find actual quote, did I dream?

Quoth: “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about”

https://www.eff.org/nl/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-sch...

I'm surprised that people keep being surprised about Google being just another company. Money first, money last.

it's almost as though the people with money benefit from marginalizing the people cynical enough to understand what they are doing.

Google, like facebook, was from origins designed to end up this way. It was not some organic complication of motives due to massive growth.

Relevant reading: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

I’m really curious, what did you think their business model was going to be given they have free services?

Surely the path they are on is the obvious one?

Google's direction is a pity really, as Apple needs a strong competitor in the mobile market to maintain innovation momentum.

Now that Google's culture is focused on collective racial/gender justice, there's no oxygen left to put towards individual rights like privacy.