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This all looks awesome (e.g. google assistant, google lens, google home, etc) but I would rather pay some $ for the service and have the guarantee that my data are my data ... than have it for free and have google mine my data to sell me ads or sell profiles to who knows who.

Maybe others are willing to trade the privacy creep for it being "free" but I'm not.

It would be great to have the option.

Google simply does not do this. They are very transparent about their security and privacy policies and I encourage you to read through the policies. Google uses the data internally to improve your experience - they are not in the business of selling your data to third parties.

> Google [...] are not in the business of selling your data

Not today, not yet

If that is your concern, how would paying into the system improve things in anyway?

Google most certainly does mine your data to sell ads. The incentives are very poorly aligned if you don't like ads and you want to use Google services.

That really doesn't make me feel any better.

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