Google then sells your data to data brokers and anyone willing to pay a pretty penny. In the end it doesnt matter if your device is only bleeding out of the Google hole exclusively because everyone else can just buy it off Google (who probably does a better job at deanonymising and aggregating your data.
Not trying to defend Google, but they don’t actually sell your data. Their ownership of your personal info is their biggest asset, so they wouldn’t easily give that data up to others. Instead. They serve ads to you on behalf of other companies based on their ad targeting criteria.
I dislike Google and their entire business model, but I do at the very least trust them to keep my data captive within their own ecosystem, as hideously enormous as it is.
Google then sells your data to data brokers and anyone willing to pay a pretty penny. In the end it doesnt matter if your device is only bleeding out of the Google hole exclusively because everyone else can just buy it off Google (who probably does a better job at deanonymising and aggregating your data.
Not trying to defend Google, but they don’t actually sell your data. Their ownership of your personal info is their biggest asset, so they wouldn’t easily give that data up to others. Instead. They serve ads to you on behalf of other companies based on their ad targeting criteria.
I dislike Google and their entire business model, but I do at the very least trust them to keep my data captive within their own ecosystem, as hideously enormous as it is.