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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by systemBuilder on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:53PM (#19793206)
Google is not going to sell every g*damn email you ever sent for $$$, but Facebook will and does. So there was never as much profit there for Google as for Facebook because Google was run more ethically.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by m0zg on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:37PM (#19793448)
Never say never. Companies pretty routinely do surprisingly underhanded/unethical things once they begin to experience financial difficulties, if not on their own then under pressure from investors.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by sirkneeland on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:24AM (#19795643)
Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by ummonk on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:02PM (#19793895)
Did you miss the time that google was showing ads targeted based on the content of your emails?
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