[krmboya]

Not free at all. You invest your personal capital (trust) into their products. Then it'll be degraded and shut down just like that.

[imiric]

You invest with your personal data they sell to data brokers, and use to improve their ML models.

Can we get those back, Google? Not just our data, but the profits and improvements you made from it?

"Free" in the age of adtech comes at a high price. The sad part is most people don't care they're getting the short end of the stick.