i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.

      • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
        19·
        1 year ago

        I looked it up on Google and it said google is one of the good guys!

        /sarcasm (circular reasoning)

        • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
          216·
          1 year ago

          circular reason is also this?? (i looked it up on brave search and it said google is evil!!) both are bad arguments, i’m so sorry.

      • 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.worldOP
        319·
        1 year ago

        well, with all blog articles, not everything has to be taken literally, maybe sometimes it’s just criticism or a misunderstanding. for example breaching user security, yes they did it, but for the safety of other people, so i’m sorry.

        • subignition@fedia.io
          20·
          1 year ago

          Multi-billion-dollar corporations do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Companies do not act morally unless they are legally compelled to.

      • al4s@feddit.de
        31·
        1 year ago

        They sell ad spots based on their data about you - IMHO that’s very different from outright selling your data.

      • inge@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        1 year ago

        lawsuit claims

        It’s right in the title. So you claim it is true. I can also claim that you sell my personal data. Doesn’t make it true.

        Let that lawsuit play out, and wait for the verdict.

        • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
          16·
          1 year ago

          In 2019, Google agreed to pay $170 million to settle claims by the FTC and New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the suit noted. Last year, a French high court upheld a 50 million Euro fine against Google over alleged failure to obtain users’ consent for using their data for ad targeting, the suit said.

          Many settled claims too.