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Is Google or Microsoft's business model dependent on selling your info to anyone other than themselves? Do you think if they did that they would stand to lose business?

Their business model is to sell ads to 3rd parties based on the information they have about you. Selling your info itself would be detrimental to their business.



Gmail skims the contents of emails and uses them for targeted advertising. Same with searches of all kinds, and any other data they get from you.

Google's targeting would be less effective if they gave everyone PGP keys and locked themselves out of the conversations they host.


Even if they don't sell it, their business model requires that they have access to it. Apple's argument here is that they don't have it.




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