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Further me. I continue to find the uproar over "privacy" rather strange, at least with regards to Google and Gmail. Yes, Google is mining our online activities to target advertising more precisely, but is that really a bad thing? If I turn off most of Google's tracking via the settings I see horrible scam ads for dental implants, weight loss products, and strange clickbait promos. If instead I let Google do its thing by not turning off all the privacy options I occasionally see an ad for something I have searched for or researched on the web, but I still often see the scammy stuff. So, for what some call a loss of "privacy" I get to somewhat reduce the schlock I see when using the Internet, though it isn't perfect. In exchange, I get all sorts of wonderfully useful services like Drive, Photos, Gmail, Keep, Maps, etc. Not seeing the outrage.
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