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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe you're right, I don't have any certainty in this. But I don't buy google's word on this for a second.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

Corpos like to lie, and their promises to not sell data is worthless. Even if they're not outright selling data directly, or "anonymizing it" before selling it, at a bare minimum they're still abusing the hoard of data they have to make a buck. They want that data and get large amounts of it through people's broswers, even with adblockers installed.