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I know quite nothing about them, nor about the other companies.
Basically it's not possible to tell which company is trustworthy (if any).@mashton
Google services provide me with so much value that I am willing to extend them a long branch of trust.Does this make any sense?
Let's say, hypothetically I'm a really evil company. But if I'll give you a lot of nice things that you'll appreciate I'll earn your trust?
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I think it does make sense. I am aware that the trust may be misplaced and so, there is a privacy "price" associated with the services.
The expected cost of that price is modelled by the privacy impact if they fuck me over, multiplied by my assessment of the likelihood of them fucking me over.
If that price is, in some way, outweighed by the value of the services they provide me then I am willing to extend the branch of trust.
Of course, this is all very hand waving and qualitative, but to me it justifies why I am OK to use so many Google services but no Facebook ones (except WhatsApp, grrr).
mashton
I know enough about them as a company, their internal stuff, to actually say that I feel more trust investing in using Google stuff than I do any other company.
Your mileage may vary, all opinions are valid.