To clarify, they appear to have a strong focus on mass analytics, data collection, acquisitions of facial biometrics companies, and most recently a push towards a "real ID" policy on their services, that to some extent sets me on edge (I'm not certain any single company should be doing all these things).

Regardless, I wouldn't have written any of this if I didn't have a certain love for the company, and desire to follow their movements with some level of intimacy. I just don't agree with everything I suspect they'll be doing 20 years from now.

Well, they certainly have become the world's largest adware vendor, and that is hard to deny. The problem is that they want to aggregate more and more information from each of us in order to sell more ads. This makes them the world's largest spyware vendor too.

So I think that comment is just a little over the top, it's not that far beyond what the undisputed reality is.

Can you really call ad-supported SaaS "adware"?

But via things like Android, they tend to lock tou into their SaaS offerings. The goal is the same adware/spyware system that has long plagued Windows. Maybe not to the same extent or with the same OS implications, but I wouldn't discount the problems that this can cause in the future as Google expands into more areas.

For example it recently occurred to me: Google Voice transcribes your voice mail to text. I wonder to what extent they index that and use this as a sample of your telephone conversations as a way of better targetting ads to you. That strikes me as very scary because at that point I have no control over the retention of this information and then it becomes something the government can easily subpoena via something like the Stored Communications Act.

This is more paranoid gibberish. Nothing you say is unique to Google's SaaS and appears to be a nearly incoherent rant about SaaS in general.