Tbh their greatest product in my opinion was their marketing in hiding that fact for as long as they did. It’s so effective that even after all of this the vast majority of its users still view google favorably.
I wonder how much of that has to do with FB also existing and being considered the much worse offender, thus acting like a "lightning rod" for pretty much the majority of privacy issues?
okay they dropped that, executive leadership has changed, and the organization structure has changed into fairly newly formed entity of Alphabet