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They are not forcing anybody to contribute, it's free and at will, just like community garden. Even walking in garden is not free, cause somebody's tax money is at use. If you are not paying taxes.

They do provide many free services. Google Maps being one of them, you liked their product and used it and it was very useful hence you contributed back to improve it.

If you had paid for their services then you could complain but if you are using it for free then don't use it for free and then complain. You could always use other products or paid products like GPS from garmin.

I don't understand why so much hate towards companies which are supporting free products and enriching lives of billions of people.

If these free products were not there can you imagine how so many poor people across globe could afford free internet technologies?

// Not google employee, opinions are mine.