Re: So predictable !
I think this is something many don't understand: Google sell *you*(1), not your data. They have many methods, several of them devious (I finally stopped using Chrome after the recent automatic login nonsense) for collecting data about you, but if Google sell that data, you become valueless to Google. Note that I'm no fan of Google's data collection practices, in fact I've used DuckDuckGo instead of Google search for years in order to limit what Google knows about me.
(1) You in this case is a person identical to you, who advertisers and others can target, via Google's services (for which they pay Google,) but without those advertisers and others actually knowing who you are - so they can't bypass Google and target you directly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
