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What would you claim that Google sells? From what does it extract value? If not its users data, then what?

They clearly don't sell "access to data". Selling "data" means I can pay them and ask a question about something and get an answer. That's what "data" is in common usage. It's information. Google doesn't sell anyone information like that. Period. Again, this is not in question.

Now, can you PLEASE try to restate your complaint in a way that isn't just a lie? Maybe construct it about how the "exploit" data that they hold internally? It can be done. But not like this. This is lying.

Maybe your objection is to the OP, because his point was perfectly clear to me. If you want to mentally substitute "exploit" for "access" because that helps you sleep at night, that's fine.

For the rest of us, I don't see why it's supposed to be acceptable that Google hoovers up all our data, but a horrible violate when Samsung does the same thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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