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by hackit2 587 days ago
They're not the customer they're the product, their customer is clients who purchase advertisement space.
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selcuka 587 days ago
> They're not the customer they're the product

If you are a free Gmail/YouTube/etc user, sure. But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer:

> I also managed to cancel all of our work google accounts.

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worik 587 days ago
> But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer:

I see your point

But I think it should say: "But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is a sucker"

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selcuka 587 days ago
Why so? You don't see ads in Google's enterprise products. The GP cancelled their business subscription because of an issue with their personal account. Also it's a very good product and the competition is Microsoft, which is not much better.
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kelnos 587 days ago
As a paying YouTube Premium subscriber, they damn well better consider me a customer.
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sebazzz 587 days ago
You are a customer who bought then advertising space to keep it blank.
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