[Oletros]

I have read, there is nothing in the links that you have provided that says that Google sells your data.

If you don't know the business model of Google and you can't read your own links it is not my problem.

But don't let facts break your imagination

[orionblastar]

One more thing Google open sourced their AI routine but didn't release the data. Collecting data and selling it is how a lot of Dotcoms earn their money for free web services. They don't give data away for free. How do you think Google earns money on free web services if they don't sell user data and advertising based on user data?

[Oletros]

> One more thing Google open sourced their AI routine but didn't release the data.

Now you must be joking or it is just that you don/'t know anything about what you talk about.

> They don't give data away for free. How do you think Google earns money on free web services if they don't sell user data and advertising based on user data?

I know how they make money, the one that clearly doesn't know is you.

[orionblastar]

No you didn't because in the headline of the last article had Tim Cook CEO of Apple saying that Google sells user data. You'd know that if you read it.

[Oletros]

Oh, yes, because Tim cook said anything it is the Bible.

Time to stop reading your poor trollish attempts, have a nice day and when you really start to comprehend how advertisement work perhaps you won't be such wrong.

[orionblastar]

Since you are too lazy to do it:

"Google

Google has become the de facto name in search (although I’ve since switched to Bing) and Gmail, Google Maps, and its other services now rank among the leaders in those categories. But all that “free” adds up to a huge amount of your personal information being traded away to create personalized, targeted ad experiences.

The latest? Google has launched a program by which your profile is now keyed to your email address. Dubbed Customer Match, the program ensures that an advertiser’s “brand is right there, with the right message, at the moment your customer is most receptive,” Google promises. So if you’ve previously asked a travel site to send information to your Gmail address, that site can sign up for Customer Match. Then when you’re watching YouTube, that site “can show ads that inspire them to plan their next trip.”

User data is sold to target Google users with advertising.

From the second link:

"Cook has repeatedly look to differentiate Apple from its competitors like Google and Facebook — where, he has said, users don’t pay for products and therefore become the products themselves. Apple, he said, does “not share information with advertisers that personally identifies you, unless you gave us permission”.

Companies like Google use the data generated from the people on their services to generate revenues and fund their maintenance. By collecting information about what people are searching for, for instance, the company is able to display more relevant ads.

The policy has allowed Google to make almost all of its biggest consumer services free. Its recently announced Photos app, for instance, gives people as much space as they want to store their images in the cloud — whereas Apple’s is limited and users must pay for access.

Tim Cook seemed partly to be responding directly to Google’s recent announcement. “You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email or your search history or now even your family photos data-mined and sold off for God knows what advertising purpose,” he said.

Cook also argued that American citizens have a right to encrypt their data, and in so doing keep it from inspection by law enforcement officials. Apple and over 140 other tech firms including Google signed a letter to Barack Obama last month, asking him not to force them to hand over user data.

“Now, we have a deep respect for law enforcement, and we work together with them in many areas, but on this issue we disagree," he said. "So let me be crystal clear — weakening encryption, or taking it away, harms good people that are using it for the right reasons. And ultimately, I believe it has a chilling effect on our First Amendment rights and undermines our country’s founding principles.”

In order for you to be correct, Google would not sell the user data in any way to any advertiser or third party.

I know Google means to not be evil, but almost every Dotcom business model provides free web services to collect user data, and then sell part of that data to advertisers.

You'd know that if you read the articles I cited. I had hoped you would be honest and read them and tell me, but instead you turned into an Internet Troll and didn't read the articles, which I am now proving by citing the articles, which I am not supposed to cite if you actually read them.

[Oletros]

> User data is sold to target Google users with advertising.

this is false, please, provide a link where it is confirmed

> In order for you to be correct, Google would not sell the user data in any way to any advertiser or third party.

No, in order to be correct YOU, you have to prove just a single proof that data is sold and you have not provided any single proof

> You'd know that if you read the articles I cited. I had hoped you would be honest and read them and tell me, but instead you turned into an Internet Troll and didn't read the articles, which I am now proving by citing the articles, which I am not supposed to cite if you actually read them.

If you were honest and you read and COMPREHEND the articles you linked you should have seen that no fricking data is sold. What is sold is ad space

The one being an internet troll is you, you own links prove you wrong and you don't want to acknowledge it