Yep, to be clear - I'm a big fan of paying for your services with money instead of your privacy!
Still Google does have bunch of really superior products (Chrome, Cloud services), and I'm personally ok to pay for them with my privacy. If there will be choice to pay with money instead, I would choose it.
At the same time, some of their products/services (e.g. Firebase) really sucks.
The whole Google thing is very fragmented.
Yep, to be clear - I'm a big fan of paying for your services with money instead of your privacy!
Still Google does have bunch of really superior products (Chrome, Cloud services), and I'm personally ok to pay for them with my privacy. If there will be choice to pay with money instead, I would choose it.
At the same time, some of their products/services (e.g. Firebase) really sucks.
The whole Google thing is very fragmented.
That's normal with big companies that have hundreds of products.
After all a company is made by people :)
Yes, standard corp. is usually made by a whole lot of sane and intelligent developers and few greedy dicks who rule it.