I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I’m very sure there is even more data they have.

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        “ghengis Khan killed more people than Hitler ya know, right?”

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          As a percentage of population, so did Julius Caesar.

          The reality is that Google is entirely dependent on ads and selling your data.

          Apple and Microsoft, it’s just a happy side gig they can do.

          Apple makes its money selling mediocre hardware and software for a premium markup.
          Microsoft makes money selling Windows, Office(+Teams) and Azure to business users then from video games, then ad revenue.

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      Fucking whataboutism. Apple and Microsoft aren’t ad companies. They’re hardware and software companies. They don’t have to collect data on you to literally make any money, Google does. If Google doesn’t track everything you do they’re incapable of making money. The same is absolutely not true for ms and Apple.