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Don't they make more by treating their customers as products (though i wouldn't call them customers because they receive no support, whether they pay or not)


How do they make money from giving their users free photo storage? I think the only path for that to be profitable was to grow the username for future subscription revenue.


You agree to have your photos analyzed and used in advertising.

They sell the data to advertisers and make money off of you.


> You agree to have your photos analyzed and used in advertising.

No, you don't.

> They sell the data to advertisers and make money off of you.

No, they don't.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-priva...

“As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period.”


As an advertiser how do I buy user data from Google photos?


Set up a campaign and target a particular group


Doesn't have anything to do with Photos data, since Photo, Drive, Gmail, etc. are explicitly not used as inputs for that.




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