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>GOOGLE, A DATA MINING and extraction company that sells personal information to advertisers

Right off the bat this person couldn't even get his facts right. Google doesn't sell personal information to advertisers.

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Came here to say exactly this. Google doesn't sell your personal information. It personalizes the ads it serves you, but that personalization happens in Google, advertisers don't see it.

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/

It might be wrongly implying Google is selling the content of your Gmail - but between Google Analytics and stuff like: https://www.google.com/insights/ Google certainly helps tracking users?

Yes it seems that a determined advertiser could find out quite a bit about people who saw its Google ads...

This is a really important distinction that apparently most reporters don't care about - I see this misconception everywhere

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