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Comment by amrocha | Hacker News Reader

The Google hate crowd is so strange to me. I just don't understand it when Google are probably the best data stewards in the current landscape. I trust Google more than I trust my own government with my data.

I guess their support is bad, is that why you're so against them?

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On the spectrum of how companies and governments handle private data, they're pretty good actually. Just, the bar is so low you're going to need an archeologist to dig it out; Not hard to far exceed said bar when you can just stand at ground level.

But most fundamentally I am against them because they're an advertising company first and foremost, and if there's one thing I trust them to do is to stay an advertising company. That means that without laws that have actual teeth to prevent misuse of data, they're always just a few decisions away from not being such good stewards of that data.

I'm not singling Google out much here though. My opinion would be the same with Meta, Apple, Microsoft..etc. I don't hate Google, I hate the whole damned system.

Alright, that's a fair opinion. It's ads all the way down with the large tech companies.

Better stewards than Apple?

Yeah I think so, although I think they're both very good.

I feel like Google has already established how they use data, whereas I'm not so sure with Apple.

And the tone deaf product cancellations.

Right, I think that's a fair criticism, but I don't see how it relates to their data privacy policies.

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