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@lauren the difference, and it is a desperately important one, is that Google is not a tech company.

It is a digital advertising intermediary that is so anomalously profitable that they can bankroll a good fraction of the worlds tech infrastructure.

Imagine a 1900's company building and distributing all Ford T-model engines "for free" so that they can collect and sell location / behavioral data of all drivers.

#surveillancecapitalism is a thing apart.

We *are* in the Twilight Zone.