But I am confident that these things are not for any kind of advertising purposes.
When your proof is "I trust Google", it doesn't really feel like you're acting in good faith here.
It costs Google time and money to scan your email and extract and store your purchase receipts --- and you think their only motivation was to be nice? Wow!
But assuming your interpretation agrees with Google's legal team ... where do you suppose they get all the info needed to profile users and deliver "personalized" ads --- which is how they make 90% of their money?
Presumably from applications like Search, Chrome, YouTube, Android, Ads, Play Store, Assistant, Translate, News, Maps, Podcasts, Shopping, Google TV, Discover, etc. (That list based on the sources that show up for me https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols; your mileage will probably vary.)
But not from the productivity apps, which is what you were complaining about.
> When your proof is "I trust Google", it doesn't really feel like you're acting in good faith here.
What do you think the reactions from various regulators around the world would be if these statements turned out to be blatant lies like you suggest? Lying about it would be really, really stupid when the option is to say nothing.
If you don't trust the TOS and the privacy policy on such crystal clear statements, why did you suggest that as the proof you wanted to see?
Presumably from applications like Search, Chrome...
And presumably Google Docs and Google Sheets --- which are productivity apps.
Basically any of their "free" services.
What do you think the reactions from various regulators around the world would be if these statements turned out to be blatant lies like you suggest?
They're not blatant lies. I showed you above, Google is perfectly OK with you interpreting things in a way that differs from the legally plausible argument they will put forth in a legal setting.
Your TOS quotes are from their paid "premier" products. These are not their only productivity apps.
> And presumably Google Docs and Google Sheets --- which are productivity apps.
No. I did not include them in that list for two reasons. First, as has been demonstrated Google is incredibly explicit about data on Drive (which Docs and Sheets are) not being used for ad targeting. There is no ambiguity there. Second, because those apps are not listed on that activity page. Nor are the other apps where Google is making explicit statements about the data not being used for advertising purposes, e.g. Gmail, Photos, Chat.
Again, they're pretty open about the apps whose data can be used for ad targeting. There is no misdirection there, there is no hiding of them from the list of data that they have. If you were correct and they were just blatantly lying, why not do it for all products?
> Your TOS quotes are from their paid "premier" products. These are not their only productivity apps.
The initial submission was about Workspace, so of course I linked to those. But when you moved the goalposts, I posted additional links that were about consumer services (Gmail, Drive). But here's one more. The page for with the account privacy settings says the following, whether you have ads personalization turned on or off, and even for a consumer account:
When your proof is "I trust Google", it doesn't really feel like you're acting in good faith here.
It costs Google time and money to scan your email and extract and store your purchase receipts --- and you think their only motivation was to be nice? Wow!
But assuming your interpretation agrees with Google's legal team ... where do you suppose they get all the info needed to profile users and deliver "personalized" ads --- which is how they make 90% of their money?