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		lupire on March 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today Google is turning on tracking for many users... Why has no one sued for violation of contract? Even if Google wins, it would be a big PR event.

judge2020 on March 29, 2022 [–]

Because they really don’t use that information for advertising. They even stopped scanning @gmail account email for ad purposes in 2018. Advertising still happens outside of these core services, eg via cross site tracking in the web browser.

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