What do you mean a PR disaster, something people get upset about on Twitter for 3 days and then forget?

Unless Google deletes the articles about the incident from its index (and hey, it's possible), then the internet doesn't forget. Instead it just slowly builds personal and political opposition against them.

Or are you saying we just should be quite and let them do what they want?

How many "PR disasters" have Google had? If you google "google scandal", how many pop up? Have people stopped using Google because of those scandals? What makes this particular scandal stand up amongst those?

I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country.

I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day.

Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English.

Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others.

Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone.

So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???

"Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others."

I am a Czech and I see them all the damn time. Maybe because I consume a lot of English content.

I generally don't use Youtube a lot and because I never log in they have no profile for me. So they show me random household ads based on location. Very poorly targeted, 90% completely uninteresting stuff. They even don't know my mother tongue :)

> because I never log in they have no profile for me

Oh I wish this was true

What I find funny is that YouTube knows who I am and where I live (English-speaking Canada), but every now and then I go through a short time period (a few days) where most of the ads are in French (for Canada).

I think the importance of this is being grossly overstated.