[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by legion

This. Microsoft's business model was based on selling software. Google's is based on selling ads.

Actually Google's is based on selling your information to people who then target you with ads, obnoxious pushy marketing and spam - and selling ads.

I specifically block all Google domains using Little Snitch. I'm not saying there aren't others out there just as bad if not worse, but they're particularly obnoxious to me - they more or less invented "big data" as it has come to exist today.