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GeekyBeartoday at 7:21 PM0 repliesview on HN

> I think Google has done some cool stuff, and I think in a lot of ways they're, at least historically, one of the less evil big tech players.

It's been a decade since Google broke their promise not to use information gleaned from your use of their services to sell ads.

> Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand — literally crossing out the lines in its privacy policy that promised to keep the two pots of data separate by default. In its place, Google substituted new language that says browsing habits “may be” combined with what the company learns from the use Gmail and other tools.

https://psmag.com/news/googles-broken-privacy-promise/