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but I don't want too.

I was using and supporting Google with Maps since the beginning I contribute to Google Maps with Local Partners.

I contributed to Google Maps by creating 3D Building with Sketch up. I will not spit on my own soup.

It's almost always a win-win, that I can't get with any other service (Facebook, apple) on Internet, I still believe in a good way with Google, they made so many thing freely for us, like Books research, Google Ngram Viewer, Google Analytics, etc. Almost everything are free, ok there's some targeting, etc that could be bad but the product produced by Google had real impact on the day to day life. Like no one BIG company product did. (Facebook, twitter, didn't change the world for me.)

Please Google, I want a job in your company. I can do anything.

PS: Why I'm downvoted? Apple fanboy argue a little please I know you don't have brain. Too easy to go down, never go up

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I am quite depended on Google and it does not bother me at all. Very much similar way as I was depended with Microsoft years ago (Windows, Office, .NET etc...). I did not love them (in fact I though Bill Gates was quite evil guy) but with tools from Microsoft I was able to do my job just like now I do with different tools from Google. Today, if Google would suddenly disappear it would affect to my life much more than any other technology company.

I always tell my children "...there is nothing free on the internet."

yeah Wikipedia is not free... Linux is not free. My comment are free.

I still can't compare Facebook to Google about targeting, ads, or other things that people tell about Google. Facebook give you what? Google always fight for giving product utility. Like Google Maps, they had the balls to change the world. Google earth / Google moon someone? someone us it? yeah but spit on your soup.

Nothing is free in the world. Wikipedia is living of donations, same for most of linux distros.

Google and Facebook are living thanks to the nice value of your data and also thanks to your free contributions.

Yes, you contributed to Google Maps for free, you did get nothing for the time you spent on it, nobody know that you did this work, you get no acknowledgement except maybe an email for which the only goal is to make you do more free work.

All visitors coming to Google Maps are thanking Google for the work you've done. And after all this free hard work, you are still paying for the use of their product with your data.

All the users that have contributed freely, but it's not free.

I contributed and in the return I get free access to the product or advantage. I don't pay. My data worth nothing.

People who think that by paying google to get the pub get a return of money is them who is wrong. Google uses schema but all the people who pay for advertising are those who pay for the service. Not me, not people who participate for free. It is like a concert if people participate voluntarily and the concert is free it is free, even if he knows your name, your schedules. This is unnecessary data.

It's free = you are the product is with Facebook not Google.

Your data is priceless to Google, because it allows them to serve their true customers, the advertisers.

You are the product with both Facebook and Google.

I find it bizarre that you can't see this.

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