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Re:Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud du... by fulafel on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:03AM (#32191468)
Counterexample of monetizing private data: https://dottech.org/84167/google-is-sued-for-showing-ads-in-... and https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13958884/google-email-sc...
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Re:Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud du... by dekhn on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:37PM (#32198445)
Showing people ads based on their keywords is not monetizing private data (showing ads on Gmail is dumb, but for other reasons). I don't actually see any ads (haven't for a long time) on gmail.
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