That's a lot like saying FB and GOOG are charitable because they give their products away for "free". How much money/data are those product donations extracting from the people they donated to?
It's not like saying that. This is literally Google donating money to charity. That's the definition of being charitable.
Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their products away for free even if they extract value from them in other ways.
>This is literally Google donating money to charity.
I specifically said "product" donations.
>Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their products away for free
And they would be ignorant of the value of their information, attention spans, and technology in general. Many such people would also agree that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about"
Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their products away for free even if they extract value from them in other ways.