There’s absolutely no way any of the FAANGs would let you use their service without harvesting your data. It’s their reason for existing and any other “features” (like search, maps, video) is just the carrot to get you there.
There’s absolutely no way any of the FAANGs would let you use their service without harvesting your data. It’s their reason for existing and any other “features” (like search, maps, video) is just the carrot to get you there.
If they don't want you to use services then they should explicitly disable them without tracking
For users who signed up before that point you choose how long to keep it for.
Why would they do that when commercial intent is available from current behaviour so easily.
That said google at least and I think Microsoft anonymizes a bit after I think 18 months or so, and does the last bits of an IP address before anything is written to disk on the google analytics side.
We openly trained/training image detection algorithms with re-captcha for example.