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by blq10 1004 days ago
Alternatively, you have gotten used to Google providing you free services out of the goodness of their heart.

This model was sustainable when the internet was adding millions of users per year, but as internet access reaches saturation - Google must do something.

I'd prefer if it was "pay for your email" - but internet users have been openly hostile to paying for anything for 39 years

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> out of the goodness of their heart.

I think you missed something in their business model.

They sell user data, so, it's not really free.