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So your argument has nothing to do with the product itself and everything to do with "hurr Durr Google bad".
Which is fine, and a valid opinion, but has nothing to do with the product.
I'm annoyed because 90% of the comments here imply or outright state that google will use this data for ads or other means, which has no basis in reality.
It’s the basis of their entire business model???
THIS IS A PAID SERVICE.
Dude, they don't only do ads. Google has a whole bunch of payed-for services that are never touched for ad-tracking. This is one of them. You are implying that Google Cloud would also use ad-tracking based on customer data, which is absurd.
Please stop spreading this FUD. Just because the free services are payed for by ads does not mean that everything they do is.
(edit: Paid, not Payed)
^paid*^
^sorry^
No need to be sorry. English is not my first language. I appreciate the correction.