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> WTF has happened to Google?

They're a publicly traded company, so the shareholders are the primary customer.

They're an advertising and data harvesting company with significant investment in free-to-consumer services, so users are viewed as products. That means user support looks like overhead.

They're extremely large and extremely diverse, so losing business is not a significant concern.

The problem is that they have too many incentives to not care about you at all, even at the rates you're paying.



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