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Re:An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and I... by madaxe_again on Monday May 22, 2023 @02:09AM (#36027999)
Gmail is not free. You may not be paying for it with cash money, but you are paying for it with your privacy, and you’d better believe they profit from having your data.
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Re:An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and I... by Croftengea on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:38AM (#36028475)
Exactly. And Google is very quick to kill free products that are not generating good revenue for them.
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Re:An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and I... by cfinnberg on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:53AM (#36029279)
Google killing free gmail would be a big hit to their brand. I don't think they can afford that
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Re:An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and I... by Tozen on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:01AM (#36040865)
Exactly. https://killedbygoogle.com/ (Killed by Google).
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Re:An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and I... by Tozen on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:18AM (#36041001)
> You may not be paying for it with cash money, but you are paying for it with your privacy, and you’d better believe they profit from having your data.

Truth. People using Gmail can pick one of the options below:

A) "If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product"

B) "If you’re not paying for it; you are the product"

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