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by CodeSheikh 3062 days ago
They provide free services. What do you expect? The data they have collected is so lucrative for them that they would never offer Facebook, Gmail, Google Search on a premium basis to daily consumer. I mean I would take premium package if they guarantee that they will not parse my images, parse my emails, parse my searches, connect dots among my social peers in order to help train their AI bots. Which/whenever they will use in the future to come up with better products or improve their existing products.

Sure there are problems associated with it. One of them is when malicious players like foreign govts get hold of such data and use it to their advantage.