i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.

  • Uncle
    222·
    1 year ago

    I’m really sorry, but that IS true, check it out

    • al4s@feddit.de
      31·
      1 year ago

      They sell ad spots based on their data about you - IMHO that’s very different from outright selling your data.

    • inge@discuss.tchncs.de
      15·
      1 year ago

      lawsuit claims

      It’s right in the title. So you claim it is true. I can also claim that you sell my personal data. Doesn’t make it true.

      Let that lawsuit play out, and wait for the verdict.

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
        16·
        1 year ago

        In 2019, Google agreed to pay $170 million to settle claims by the FTC and New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the suit noted. Last year, a French high court upheld a 50 million Euro fine against Google over alleged failure to obtain users’ consent for using their data for ad targeting, the suit said.

        Many settled claims too.