[jjav]

> Anyone who thinks this is about advertising/collecting personal data is out of their minds.

Google is a public company, just look at their annual reports. Where do they make most revenue? Advertising.

Thus, everything they do is about promoting advertising. It would be naive to think otherwise.

[nprateem]

And how do they avoid wasting money and therefore increase their profits? By putting in automated systems, that in this case are good enough for the majority of non tech savvy, non paranoid users.